Cho-Liang Lin, violin

Cho-Liang Lin, violin











Mr. Lin and his student Joanna Frankel


New to Mucony, Cho-Liang Lin is a violinist whose career
has spanned the globe for 27 years. He was born in
Taiwan in 1960 and began playing the violin at the age of
five. He went on to study in Sydney and New York City
where he was a student of Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard
School. Since his debut at Lincoln Center`s Mostly
Mozart Festival at the age of nineteen, he has appeared
with virtually every major orchestra in the world,
including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, Philadelphia
Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. He has over twenty
recordings to his credit, ranging from the concertos of
Mozart, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, and Prokofiev, to
Christopher Rouse and Tan Dun, as well as the chamber
music of Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Ravel. His
recording partners include Yefim Bronfman, Yo-Yo Ma,
Wynton Marsalis, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin,
Michael Tilson Thomas and Isaac Stern. His recordings
have been critically acclaimed, winning several Grammy
nominations and The Gramophone`s Record of the Year
award. He has been a member of the Juilliard School
faculty since 1991. He is also the music director of La
Jolla SummerFest in California.

His violin lessons will be available to you in June, 2008.

Mr. Lin and his student Shih-Kai
















Joanna(violin), Young Kyung (piano) and Mr. Lin



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Andre-Michel Schub, piano

His Student Steven Mann and Mr. Schub

New to Mucony, Pianist Andre-Michel Schub makes orchestral appearances this season in Memphis, Santa Barbara, and Williamsburg, Virginia. He plays solo recitals in Washington, DC and Phoenix, joint recitals with violinist Cho-Liang Lin, and trio concerts with David Shifrin and Ani Kavafian. He is also engaged in a recording project of Mozart's music to commemorate the tenth season of the Virginia Arts Festival.

Winner of the 1974 Naumburg International Piano Competition, recipient of the 1977 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and grand prize winner of the 1981 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Mr. Schub has been the artistic director of the Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Music Series since 1997.

He appears as guest artist with Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, Ravinia, the Blossom Festival, Wolf Trap, and the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. He has performed with the Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, St. Louis, and Milwaukee symphonies; the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras; the Los Angeles, New York, and Rochester philharmonics; the Royal Concertgebouw; the Bournemouth Symphony, and the New York Pops in Carnegie Hall.

Mr. Schub was an Artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 1979-1983, and returned in 2002.

Manhattan School of Music College faculty member since 2006.


His Schumann Carnaval Op.9 piano lessons will be available to you in early June, 2008.