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Francisco and gives chamber music per- formances in New York and Detroit. Cho-Liang Lin records exclusively for the Sony Classical label. His latest discs are the Brahms Sextets, Opp. 18 and 36, with Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Michael Tree, Yo-Yo Ma, and Sharon Robinson, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante and Concertone partnered by Mr. Laredo, Stravinsky's Violin Concerto in D and Prokofiev's Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, and a disc of Schubert and Brahms String quintets with Messrs. Stern, Laredo, Tree, and Ma, and Ms. Robinson. Enraptured by the sound of a violin coming from a neighbor's window in his native Taiwan, the five-year-old Cho- Liang Lin persuaded his parents to buy him a small instrument. He gave his first public performance two years later and, when he was 12, was sent to Australia to study at the Sydney Conservatorium. After a master dass given there by Itzhak Perlman, Mr. Lin was inspired to study with Mr. Perlman's teacher, Dorothy DeLay. He arrived in New York in 1975 and was enrolled in The Juilliard School immediately following his audition. He is now a member of the Juilliard faculty. He became a United States Citizen in From the time of his New York and Kennedy Center debuts in 1982, cellist Carter Brey has been repeatedly and unequivo- cally acclaimed by music critics for his virtuos- ity, flawless technique, and total musi- cianship. As one of the outstanding in- strumentalists of his generation-winner of such prestigious awards as the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Prize, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists-he has been soloist with virtually all of America's maior orchestras and has performed under the batons of such celebrated con- ductors as Claudio Abbado, Christian Badea, Semyon Bychkov, Sergiu Comissiona, Christoph von Dohnänyi, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Hugh Wolff. His career as an ensemble player is equally distinguished, marked by regu lär appearances with the Tokyo String Quartet, the Emerson Quartet, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Cen ter, as well as at the Spoleto Festivals in the United States and Italy, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the La Jolla Chamber Music Festival, among many others. Düring the 1993-94 season, he gives concerts with the Dresden Philharmonie, the St. Louis Symphony, the Buffalo Phil harmonie, the Indianapolis Symphony, and the Omaha Symphony, among other ensembles. In addition to continuing his longstanding collaboration in duo recital with pianist Christopher O'Riley, Carter Breyjoined Mr. O'Riley, Violinist Pamela Frank, and violist Paul Neubauer for a
