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Kai Lin currently is an adjunct
professor and a piano accompanist for
Department of Music at Elizabeth City State
University, NC, an adjunct teacher at
Norfolk Academy, the Director of Music at
the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Norfolk, VA, a piano teacher at St. Patrick
Catholic School, piano accompanist and
organist for Bellissima! A Women
Choral in Tidewater area, Virginia. Mr. Lin
is a former lecturer in the Composition and
Conducting Department and a piano
accompanist in the Vocal Department of the
Shanghai Conservatory of Music after he
graduated from that conservatory. He
received the Graduate Scholarship and
Graduate Assistantships Awards from both
Ohio University School of Music and
College-Conservatory of Music at the
University of Cincinnati, and completed
graduate degree studies in master and
doctoral programs with national honors. He
also is a member of the ASCAP (American
Society of Composer, Authors, and
Publishers), AGO (American Guild of
Organists) with a professional certificate
of CAGO, and MTNA (Music Teachers National
Association). Kai Lin won the Excellent
Education Prize for teaching in Shanghai
Conservatory of Music, and the Excellent
Composition Award with his male vocal
quartet in the National Arts Competition.
His compositions have been published, and
concert performances have been released from
DVDs and CDs. Kai teaches preschool
through advanced students, as well as adult
students in his private studio in Virginia
Beach, VA for piano performance and
improvisation; electronic keyboard; music
theory, composition and conducting. He also
works as a judge for Tidewater Music Teacher
Forum, Honor Recital Audition for Piano,
Levels of Progress, Virginia Beach
Federation of Music Club, Junior Festival
for Piano Solo and Duet, Music Theory Tests
at Dominion University, Ohio Federation of
Music Club, for Junior Music Festival,
District III-E, Piano Solo at University of
Dayton. After studying with Kai Lin, his
students were accepted by the high level
university institutions such as Princeton
University, Yale University, MIT, University
of Pennsylvania, University of California in
Berkley, University of Virginia, and
Virginia Tech.
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, Principle Horn of
VSO; and Amy Rakowczyk, 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 College-Conservatory
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 also 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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