Dr. Lin holds her Bachelor of Music degree from Taipei National University of the Arts, Master of Music from New England Conservatory and Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston University. She had been an instructor for one-on-one piano and group piano courses at Boston University from 2007-2009. From 2009 to 2013, she was piano faculty at South Shore Conservatory. After moving to California in 2014, Dr. Lin joined Opera San José as a pianist. In addition, she has been invited to Ticino Musica Festival in Switzerland and International Lyric Academy in Italy as a collaborative pianist and répétiteur in summer 2018, 2019 and 2022. Currently, she is the piano faculty and collaborative pianist at Community School of Music and Arts, San José State University and San Francisco Opera Guild.
Invited as a winner of American Protégé concerto competition, Ihang Lin made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2012 performing piano solo works by Maurice Ravel. Her professional awards include special recognition award in 2012 San Antonio International Piano Competition and 1st prize in 2009 Aaron Richmond Piano Competition. Over the past few years, she had been selected as a competitor for several international piano competitions, including Virginia Waring, Cincinnati World and Nena Wideman. At the age of 18, she made her soloist debut performing Mozart’s complete Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major with Kaohsiung Youth Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan.
