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ABOUT THE WRITER:
Albert Lin is a classically-trained pianist residing in Singapore. Having began formal lessons on the piano at the age of three, he was awarded the 3rd prize at the National Music Competition (Piano Open category) while under the tutelage of Ong Lip Tat. At the age of 16, he enrolled at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in USA, majoring in Piano Performance with Marian Hahn. He was also an orchestral conducting minor, studying with Frederyk Prausnitz. He performed in all the major school ensembles and also served as an official conservatory accompanist. Later, he studied with Arthur Greene at the University of Michigan during which time he was awarded the first prize at the Rochdale Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and also placed as a finalist in the California International Young Artist Competition.
Since returning to Singapore, he has maintained an active career in solo performance and also as a collaborative pianist. A keen advocate of new music, he presented two full-length recitals featuring music of Singaporean composers and composers residing in Singapore, and has given the local and world premiere of works by composers such as Lowell Liebermann, Nikolai Kapustin, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Robert Casteels, Leong Yoon Pin, John Sharpley, Dr Zechariah Goh, and Dr Joyce Bee-Tuan Koh, and recorded for the soundtrack of the latest Singapore Airlines advertisements. He was invited to perform in the 2007 Singapore International Piano Festival and also with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in the 2008 President's Young Performers' Concert. He has also appeared as soloist with the Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra, the Saigon Philharmonic, the Anglo-Chinese School (Indepenedent) Philharmonic, andthe Rochdale Symphony Orchestra, and performed with international artistes such as Nicola Benedetti and Emma Shapplin. He has worked with conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Chung Park, Tim Reynish, Robert Casteels, Lim Yau, Wang Ya Hui, Amos Chia, and Adrian Tan.
He currently freelances as a music reviewer for The Straits Times, the national newspaper of Singapore.
Read more about him at his personal website http://albertlwj7.wix.com/albert-lin
