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Kai Lin teaches preschool through adult
students in the areas of piano performance
and improvisation, music theory,
composition, and conducting. Now his studio
has been moved in San Francisco, CA from
Virginia Beach, VA..
Kai studied composition, choral
conducting, and organ in the Doctor of Music
Arts Program at the College-Conservatory of
Music in University of Cincinnati, Ohio. He
earned his Master of Music degree with the
National Honor Society of Pi Kappa Lambda
for music achievement from the Ohio
University School of Music in Athens, Ohio.
Kai Lin began studying piano performance
when he was seven years old. At age of tenth
he was qualified and selected by the Primary
Music School Affiliated to Shanghai
Conservatory of Music majoring in Piano
Performance. He graduated from Shanghai
Conservatory of Music (SCM), the Department
of Composition/ Conducting, studied with
famous composer/professor Chen Gang. Kai Lin
was a lecturer in SCM from 1984-1990 and
received the Excellent Education Award in
1985 for working as a piano accompanist in
the Vocal Department. Kai Lin was an Adjunct
Professor and University Accompanist at
Elizabeth City Sate University, NC, and
taught courses of Music Literature,
Non-Western Music, and Piano Group Study; a
teacher assistant for teaching
Sigh-Reading/Ear-Training, Music Theory;
Ohio University School of Music piano
accompanist. Mr. Lin was also the Director
of Music in Trinity Lutheran Church,
Norfolk, Virginia, and a piano teaching
teacher at St. Patrick School. Kai Lin is a
member of the ASCAP (American Society of
Composers, Authors, and Publishers), AGO
(American Guild of Organists) with a
professional certificate of CAGO, and MTNA
(Music Teachers National Association).
Kai Lin’s main publications include CDs
of Music Festival 2016, Kai Lin, Organ &
Piano; Kathryn Kelly, Soprano (2017); CDs of
Kai Lin’s Composition Concert (2016); CDs of
Kai Lin’s Organ Improvisations, Op. 98
(2015); Kai Lin Selected Works for Piano
Solo (Book I & II), published by Shanghai
Wenhui Publisher, (2015). There are 21
scores of piano solo music; Kai Lin’s Piano
& Music Selections, Reflection of Music
Life, published by Shanghai Wenhui
Publisher, (2015); CDs of Concert for 90th
Anniversary of Church & Easter 2001, (2001)
; Kai Lin organized and conducted this
excellent concert which include wonderful
instrumental and vocal solo music, chamber
music and choral music. Kai also performed
C. M. Widor’s Toccata from Organ Symphony
No. 5, Op. 42 and L. Vierne’s Carillon de
Westminster. Kai Lin’s choral music:
Mass of
Peace is successfully shown in concert; CDs
of Bellissima! (2009) is a Bellissima Women
Choral recording. The piano accompanist is
by Kai Lin; CDs of KAI LIN (1998). This CDs
selected his orchestral music, chamber music
and electronic music.
Kai Lin's Composition Concert presented
successfully in 2010 at Old Dominion
University Recital Hall, Norfolk, Virginia.
The program includes his piano solo, soprano
solo, electronic music, Sonata for Horn and
Piano, Opus. 55, Scherzo for Violin Solo and
Piano, Opus 54, performed by Kai Lin, piano
soloist; Yun Zhang, Associate Concertmaster
of Virginia Symphony Orchestra; David Wick
who was the Principle Horn of VSO; and Amy
Rakowczyk who was soprano of Hawaii Opera
Theatre. Mr. Lin's piano compositions have
been very warmly received at several piano
recitals. Piano solo pieces Toccata and
Invention in C and Harmonic Dance were
performed successfully by his students at
MTNA, Students Honor Recital, Old Dominion
University Recital Hall, in 2008. His Fugue
For My Students, for Eight Hands on Two
Pianos was performed by his students in
Student Recital in 2004. His music
compositions and recordings are published in
USA and China. His Trio, No. 1 for flute,
horn and cello was performed successfully in
Music Ninety-Six Festival and New Music at
CCM in 1996 at the CollegeConservatory of
Music, Cincinnati. Arches, Op.4 for
Orchestra was performed by the Ohio
University Symphony Orchestra in 1993, and
String Quartet, No.1 was performed at the
Ohio University School of Music, 1992. Mr.
Lin's symphonic poem Capriccio of the Yi Li
Prairie (1989) by Shanghai Film Symphony
Orchestra was broadcast nationally and
warmly received by both audience and
critics. Light Boat on the West Lake for
String quartet (1980) and Electronic Music:
Landscape of Lee River (1994) were showcased
on recorded compact disc. His choral music
Mass of Peace was performed at Corpus
Christi Church, Dayton, OH and recorded in
compact disc format in 2001.
Kai Lin made his organ and piano début in
Cincinnati, OH, 1996. The program includes
J.S. Bach's Fugue in G Minor; L.V.
Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 31, No. 1; F.
Chopin's Etude No. 12 “Revolutionary”; F.
Liszt's Liebestraum No. 3 in A flat Major;
C. Franck's Prelude, Fugue and Variation,
Op. 18; L. Vierne's Carillon de Westminster;
C. M. Widor's Organ Symphony No. 5, Op. 42.
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