Yanjue Lin is a Chinese-born pianist currently based in Minnesota. She attended the Artist Diploma program at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from Shenandoah University, and a Master of Music in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has studied with Santiago Rodríguez and Marika Bournaki, and has participated in masterclasses with John O’Conor, Anton Nel, Anne-Marie McDermott, Victor Rosenbaum, Jonathan Plowright, Fali Pavri, Roy Howat, and other distinguished artists.

Her performance experience spans international and institutional competition settings, including First Prize at the Piano Soloist Competition of the Singapore Chinese Piano Festival, finalist placement in the London Overseas Musicians’ League International Piano Competition, and prizewinner at the A Ramsay Calder Debussy Prize at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Student Soloist Competition at Shenandoah University.

In addition to her solo training, she has experience in chamber music and orchestral performance. She served as a piano fellow at the Atlantic Music Festival and the Eastern Festival of Music, where she works closely with faculty artists and fellow musicians in collaborative settings. Her orchestral experience encompasses both solo and orchestral piano performance. She has appeared as a soloist with the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Jan Wagner and has also served as an orchestral pianist, working with distinguished conductors including Maestros Gerard Schwarz and José-Luis Novo, Ho-Yin Kwok, and Chia-Hsuan Lin. More