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Jasmine Lin began violin studies at age four. Since then she has appeared as

soloist with orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Illinois

Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra

of Brazil, Symphony Orchestra of Uruguay, and the National Symphony

Orchestra of Taiwan,†and in recital in Chicago, New York, Nova Scotia, Rio de

Janeiro, and Montevideo. She was a prizewinner in the International Paganini

Competition and took second prize in the International Naumburg Competition.

The New York Times describes her as an "unusually individualistic player" with

"electrifying assertiveness" and "virtuosic abandon".

As a chamber musician, Ms. Lin has been a participant of the Marlboro Music

Festival and the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia, and has toured

extensively in the United States as part of the Chicago String Quartet, in China

as part of the Overseas Musicians, and in Taiwan as a member of Taiwan

Connection Music Festival. She has been an adjunct faculty member at

Northwestern University and DePaul University and was a faculty member of

the Taos School of Music in New Mexico.

Ms. Lin is a founding member of the Formosa Quartet, which won first prize in

the 2006 London International String Quartet Competition. The Formosa's

critically-acclaimed recording of works by Mozart, Debussy, Wolf and Schubert

on the EMI Debut Series†was released in January 2006. The quartet†performs

in major venues around the world including†the Chicago Cultural Center, the

Library of Congress,Caramoor Festival, Cornell University, BBC In Tune, and

Wigmore Hall.

Ms. Lin is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. She gave her New York

debut in Merkin Hall, where the program included her poetry set to music. Her

poem "The night of h's" received Editor's Choice Award from the International

Poetry Foundation, and her poetry/music presentations have been featured in

Chicago and on radio in Taipei. In the 1999-2000 season she was Second

Assistant Concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In addition to

her activities with the Formosa Quartet, she is a member of Trio Verve with

cellist Marina Hoover and pianist Patricia Tao, as well as a member of the

Chicago Chamber Musicians, whose Composer Perspectives series won the

ASCAP award for adventuresome programming. She is on the faculty at

Roosevelt University and a proud native of Chicago.