A renowned performer and teacher throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe, JOSEPH LIN is on the faculty of the Juilliard School where he teaches violin and chamber music. First violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet from 2011 to 2018, Lin’s special projects since then have included complete cycles of the Bach Sonatas and Partitas; period instrument performances of Beethoven, Schubert, and Bach; Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto; and Musicians from Marlboro tours on violin and viola.
As a professor at Cornell from 2007 to 2011, Joseph Lin organized the inaugural Chinese Musicians Residency and led a project with Cornell composers to create new music inspired by Bach. Lin’s recordings include the music of Korngold and Busoni; an album of Debussy, Franck, and Milhaud; and the complete unaccompanied works of Bach and Ysaÿe. His recording of Mozart’s A major Concerto with original cadenzas was released in 2017. With the Juilliard Quartet, Lin recorded Schubert’s Death and the Maiden, Carter’s Fifth Quartet, as well as the JSQ’s album of Beethoven, Davidovsky, and Bartók.