Cho-Liang Lin Violinist A t the forefront of today’s young violin virtuosos, Chinese-American Cho-Liang Lin has won ovations around the world for his dazzling tech- nique and beauty and nuance of tone. Mr. Lin’s 1993-94 season is highlighted by a14-city Ameri can tour with the Dresden Phil harmonie and Philippe Entremont, which includes a performance at Carnegie Hall; appearances with the Bourne- mouth Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall in New York and in Worcester; tours of the United Kingdom with the Royal Phil harmonie Orchestra led by Vernon Handley including a performance at London’s Royal Festival Hall and with the Bergen Philharmonie and conductor Dmitri Kitaenko. Orchestral performances include appearances with the Toronto Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, the San Antonio Symphony, and in Europe, orchestras in Finland, Belgium and Monaco. Mr. Lin undertakes another Far East tour, which includes performances with the Japan Philharmonie and NHK Symphony, and recitals in Korea and Taiwan. Mr. Lin also makes recital appearances in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco and gives chamber music performances in New York and Detroit. His summer dates in 1993 included return appearances at the Aspen Festival, New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, La Jolla and the Grand Teton Festival; a tour of Japan with the Aspen Festival and a first tour of South America. Cho-Liang Lin records exclusively for the Sony Classical label. His latest discsarethe recently released Brahms Sextets, Opp. 18 and 36, with Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Michael Tree, Yo-Yo Ma and Sharon Robinson, and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante and Concertone partnered by Mr. Laredo and featuring the English Chamber Orchestra directed by Raymond Leppard. Upcoming releases include recordings of Stravinsky’s Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra and Prokofiev’s Violin Concertos No. 1 and 2, both with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonie, and a disc of Schubert and Brahms String quartets with Messrs. Stern, Laredo, Tree, and Ma, and Ms. Robinson. Many of Mr. Lin’s albums have garnered awards and won critical acclaim. The British magazine Gramophone named his recording of the Sibelius and Nielsen —continued on page XIV
