{"id":103,"date":"2015-05-21T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T07:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2015-05-22T12:36:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T04:36:27","slug":"chien-kwan-lin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/performers\/chien-kwan-lin\/","title":{"rendered":"Chien-Kwan Lin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104\" src=\"http:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Chien-Kwan-Lin-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"Chien-Kwan Lin\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Chien-Kwan-Lin-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Chien-Kwan-Lin-1024x856.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Chien-Kwan-Lin.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Chien-Kwan Lin<\/h2>\n<p>Chien-Kwan Lin (b. 1972, Singapore) has appeared as soloist and guest artist with the United States Navy Band, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Portland (ME) Symphony, as well as the philharmonic and chamber orchestras of Boston, Rochester, Sichuan and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lin\u2019s performances have garnered excellent reviews by critics in New York and Boston. His critically-acclaimed Carnegie Hall recital prompted <em>New York Concert Review<\/em> to portray him as a performer \u201cwho has the passion and restraint and beautiful sense of line to take melody where it wants to go, fully and generously,\u201d while the <em>Boston Globe<\/em> has lauded him for \u201cdisplaying chops,\u201d and has described his playing as \u201cpolished,\u201d \u201ccharismatic,\u201d and \u201cappealing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As an internationally saxophone artist and professor, Dr. Lin has been frequent guest at some of the most prestigious conservatories and symposiums across Asia, Europe and North America. Recent appearances by Dr. Lin have included the World Saxophone Congress, North American Saxophone Alliance, Selmer Showroom (Paris), Steinway Hall (NYC), New England Saxophone Symposium, and the U.S. Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium. He has presented master classes across Asia, Europe, and North America.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chien-Kwan Lin is currently Associate Professor of Saxophone at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.\u00a0 He is founding director of the renowned saxophone ensemble, the Eastman Saxophone Project (ESP), as well as the recipient of the 2012-2013 Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching.\u00a0 Dr. Lin is an artist and clinician for Selmer and Vandoren companies, and performs exclusively on these products. He holds degrees from the New England Conservatory (BM, MM) and Eastman (Performer\u2019s Certificate, DMA). His teachers have included Ken Radnofsky and Ramon Ricker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chien-Kwan Lin Chien-Kwan Lin (b. 1972, Singapore) has appeared as soloist and guest artist with the United States Navy Band, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Portland (ME) Symphony, as well as the philharmonic and chamber orchestras of Boston, Rochester, Sichuan and Thailand. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":70,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/105"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}