Born
in Shanghai, China, violinist Lin He began his musical training at the
age of five. Mr. He received his doctorate degree from the Eastman School
of Music, where he worked under the tutelage of Zvi Zeitlin. Other major
influences include Sylvia Rosenberg, Paul Kantor, Kyung Sun Lee, James
Lyon, Joanne Feldman, and Peiwen Yuan.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Mr. He has performed concertos with
the Drake Symphony, the Houghton Philharmonia, the Jiang Su Symphony,
the Southern Tier Symphony, the Tuscarawas Philharmonic, and the Wooster
Symphony. He has also presented recitals at universities across the United
States as well as at the East China Normal University, the Nanjing School
of the Arts, and the Xi'an Conservatory of Music.
As an orchestral player, Mr. He has performed with the Shanghai Symphony,
Rochester Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and New World Symphony, and has
worked under the direction of Alsop, Conlon, DePreist, Ozawa, Previn,
Robertson, Seaman, Slatkin, Spano, de Waart, and Zinman.
Summer festival appearances have taken Mr. He from venues such as the
Music Academy of the West to the Tanglewood Music Center where he had
a solo performance in Ozawa Hall, in 2001. In 2005, Mr. He appeared at
the Aspen Music Festival, where he served as Assistant Principal Second
Violin for the Festival Orchestra and was the featured violinist for the
world premiere concert of American-Chinese composer Huang Ruo. Lin He
has been a laureate of the Padesta Solo Competition, the ASTA competition,
and a finalist for the Marlboro Music School and Festival. Mr. He has
received the Creative Achievement Award, the William Forest Chamber Music
Award, and the 2003 John Celentano Award for Excellence in Chamber Music
from the Eastman School of Music. Mr. He has been featured on several
live radio broadcasts and on the 8 CD set of The Complete Musician (a
theory textbook written by Steven Laitz at the Eastman School of Music).
Mr. He has previously taught at Eastman School of Music and Pennsylvania
State University. Lin He is now serving as the Assistant Professor of
Violin at the Louisiana State University School of Music and the Associate
Concertmaster of the Baton Rouge Symphony.
Recent and upcoming projects include a recording of French Sonatas with
Certaur Label, concert tour during the winter of 2009 in major cities
of mainland China, concerto appearance with orchestra in Malaysia and
a solo debut with the Louisiana Sinfonietta.
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