Ching-Mei Lin
OOT A2Y Artist

Ching-Mei Lin is a composer and pianist. As a composer of Taiwanese origin, Ms. Lin aims to incorporate innovative and international techniques in her music. Her pieces combine local dissonances with consonant large-scale structures and pentatonic modality with a chromatic pitch language. Lin has composed for soloists and ensembles in the North America, Europe and Asia. Her pieces have been performed at the Aspen Music Festival, Bowdoin Music Festival, Society of Composers, Inc. Conference, and played by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and others. Ms. Lin was the sole recipient of the String Quartet award at the Emerging Composers Competition in 2009, and has received numerous other distinctions - Government Literary and Artistic Creation Award, Taiwan; 3^rd Place in the Sun River Prize, China; ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award; 1^st Prize in the NACUSA Young Composers Competition. As the overall prizewinner in the 2008 "New Music on the Block" competition sponsored by Block M Records, her music will be made available online at the iTunes Music Store. Upon graduating from the National Taiwan Normal University, Ms. Lin was awarded a government sponsorship for overseas study. She holds a Masters of Music degree in Composition from the Eastman School of Music and recently completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Michigan, where she studied composition with Evan Chambers, Bright Sheng and William Bolcom, and piano with Louis Nagel. Lin is also an active pianist, improviser, and collaborator. She has collaborated on film music for two Taiwanese documentaries. She joined the Opera on Tap—Ypsilanti in 2009 and enjoys working with singers and instrumentalists.