Steve Lin has concertized throughout the United States, Italy, the Philippines, and Taiwan. He is acclaimed by
Classical Guitar Magazine as “a confident player with a powerful sound, quick hands, and a solid musical memory” and praised by Eliot Fisk as a performer who “plays with an innate and uncommon elegance”. Steve was the first prize winner at the Boston GuitarFest Competition and the East Carolina University Guitar Competition. Steve has released two albums on the VGo Recordings label:
Eliot Fisk Series Vol. 1 and
Imagen: works by Agustín Barrios and Antonio Lauro.
Steve is regularly engaged in community and educational concerts. Beginning in 2005, he founded Boston Guitar Project, which organized over 20 performances annually throughout the Greater Boston Area. Now living in the San Francisco Bay Area, he continues his work through the South Bay Guitar Society.
Passionate about new music, Steve most notably performed with the Callithumpian Consort with Stephen Drury and Helmut Lachenmann. He has also commissioned and premiered works by David McMullin, Nomi Epstein, Joseph Johnson, Matthew McConnell, and Colin Stack.
At present, Steve is a guitar professor at San Jose State University. He also teaches guitar privately and at Northern California School of Music and Canon Music School. Steve is completing his doctorate from New England Conservatory under Eliot Fisk. He earned his M.M. at Yale School of Music and his B.M. at NEC. During his free time he enjoys spending too much time cooking and playing table tennis.
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