{"id":800,"date":"2023-06-20T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T09:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2025\/?page_id=800"},"modified":"2025-05-14T00:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:58:20","slug":"chien-kwan-lin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2025\/artists\/chien-kwan-lin\/","title":{"rendered":"Chien-Kwan Lin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chien-Kwan Lin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chien-Kwan Lin (b. 1972, Singapore) has appeared as soloist and guest artist with the United States Navy Band, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, New World Symphony, Beijing Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Boston Philharmonic, Sichuan Philharmonic, Thailand Philharmonic, and Rochester Chamber orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Lin\u2019s performances have garnered excellent reviews by critics in New York and Boston. His critically-acclaimed Carnegie Hall recital prompted 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 Boston Globe<\/em> has lauded him for \u201cdisplaying chops,\u201d and described his playing as \u201cpolished,\u201d \u201ccharismatic,\u201d and \u201cappealing.\u201d  Mr. Lin\u2019s recording of Lei Liang\u2019s Memories of Xiaoxiang for Alto Saxophone & Tape<\/em> (Mode) was selected among \u201cAmazon.com: Best 20th<\/sup>\/21st<\/sup> Century Classical of 2009,\u201d and his recording of Liang\u2019s Xiaoxiang Concerto<\/em> with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP\/sound) was named a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent appearances by Mr. Lin have included the World Saxophone Congress, North American Saxophone Alliance, Asia Saxophone Congress, Vienna Sax Fest, Atlanta Saxophone Day, and the U.S. Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium.  He has presented master classes across the U.S. and internationally, including the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP), Manuel Castillo Conservatory of Seville (Spain), National Taipei University for the Arts, Mahidol University (Thailand), as well as major conservatories and universities across China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Lin is currently Professor of Saxophone at the Eastman School of Music, where he is also founding director of the Eastman Saxophone Project (ESP), and recipient of the 2012-2013 Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching.  His students have won more than fifty major national and international prizes, including four First Prizes at the North American Saxophone Alliance Competition, four Gold Medals at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, thirteen First Prizes at the Music Teachers National Association Competition, Grand Prizes at both the Coleman and Plowman Chamber Music Competitions, as well as top prizes at the Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition.  Mr. Lin\u2019s former students hold collegiate teaching positions, and are members of premier military bands in Washington, D.C., including \u2018The President\u2019s Own\u2019 U.S. Marine Band, the U.S. Navy Band, and the U.S. Army Band \u2018Pershing\u2019s Own\u2019 Ceremonial and Concert Bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chien-Kwan Lin is an artist and clinician for Selmer and Vandoren companies.\u00a0 He holds degrees from the New England Conservatory (BM, MM) and the Eastman School of Music (Performer\u2019s Certificate, DMA).\u00a0 His teachers have included Ken Radnofsky and Ramon Ricker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chien-Kwan Lin Chien-Kwan Lin (b. 1972, Singapore) has appeared as soloist and guest artist with the United States Navy Band, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, New World Symphony, Beijing Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Boston Philharmonic, Sichuan Philharmonic, Thailand Philharmonic, and Rochester Chamber orchestra. Mr. Lin\u2019s performances have garnered excellent reviews by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-800","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/800\/revisions\/1103"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}