Chia-Hsuan Lin, newly named music director of the Rochester Symphony in Minnesota.
In Thursday’s (10/22) Musical America, Susan Elliott writes, “Chia-Hsuan Lin, principal guest conductor of the Richmond Symphony, is the new music director of the Rochester (MN) Symphony, a professional ensemble of about 70 musicians that performs up to ten concerts a season and works with local schools. Lin succeeds Jere Lantz, who stepped down in 2022 after over four decades in the job. This marks Lin’s first music directorship, although she has guest conducted the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, Virginia Symphony, and Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, among others. She has also served as music director of a number of youth orchestras, including being interim of the Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland. … A native of Taiwan, Lin played marimba as a member of the Taipei Percussion Group at the National Taiwan Normal University. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati’s CCM and a doctorate from Northwestern University’s Bienen School.”
