Bio 

Her 2026–27 season includes continued leadership of the Avanti Orchestra and The Dallas Opera’s Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors, culminating in a performance with The Dallas Opera Orchestra at the Showcase Concert in January 2027. In spring 2027, she will work with The Atlanta Opera on Puccini’s Tosca, assisting Principal Conductor Iván López Reynoso.

Opera has been an equally central strand of Lin’s career. From 2024 to 2026, she served as Conductor at the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, becoming the first Taiwanese artist appointed to the program. During her tenure, she conducted the Lyric Opera Orchestra on Sunday in the Park with Lyric at Millennium Park and the annual Rising Stars in Concert at the Lyric Opera House. She also served on Lyric’s music staff for Rigoletto, Fidelio, Medea, Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci, Salome, and Madama Butterfly, while leading musical preparation and rehearsals with Ryan Opera Center artists for La bohème, Le nozze di Figaro, The Listeners, and Blue.

Beyond her operatic work, Lin has worked as cover conductor with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Her international work has also taken her to the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Bergen National Opera Summer Academy in Norway, Finland’s Fiskars Summer Festival, and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, alongside collaborations with the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra’s educational programs.

Her artistic work is grounded in a belief in music as a space for discovery—one where emerging artists are heard, traditions and perspectives meet, and new artistic relationships can take shape. Through her work as a conductor and music director, Lin creates opportunities for emerging artists and builds artistic bridges between Taiwan, Asia, and international musical communities.

Lin is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where she studies with Marin Alsop and Joseph Young. She holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees from National Taiwan Normal University, where she studied with Apo Ching-Hsin Hsu.

When she’s not making music, you’ll likely find her playing pickup basketball or exploring nature with her sketchbook in hand.