Joseph Lin has earned broad recognition for his mature artistry as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Hailed by the Boston Globe as a “master of the violin,” Mr. Lin was awarded First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in 1996 at the age of 17, and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts the same year. In 1999, he became the youngest musician ever to receive the Pro Musicis International Award. In 2000, Mr. Lin won one of the top prizes at the Hannover International Violin Competition, and the following year he won First Prize at the inaugural Michael Hill World Violin Competition in New Zealand.
An active soloist, Joseph Lin has recently appeared with the Santa Fe Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic, Sapporo Symphony, Taiwan National Symphony, Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Auckland Philharmonia. Other concerto engagements have included the Ft. Worth Symphony with Maestro Miguel Harth-Bedoya, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s with Peter Oundjian, and the Boston Symphony with Seiji Ozawa.
Recent recitals have taken Mr. Lin to the California Center for the Arts in Escondido, the Salle Cortot in Paris, City Hall in Hong Kong and throughout Japan where he has presented all-unaccompanied programs to great acclaim. Describing Mr. Lin’s recent unaccompanied performance in New York, The New York Times praised his “energetic reading” of Bach in which “Lin’s fluid dynamics kept the voices clear and distinct,” while in the Ysaÿe “he moved easily through the movement’s counterpoint and double-stopped trills.” Mr. Lin’s chamber music appearances include the Ravinia and Marlboro Music Festivals, the Seattle Chamber Music Society and tours with Musicians from Marlboro.
Reviewing Joseph Lin’s debut CD, works of Korngold on the Naxos label, The Strad states: “Mr. Lin is a superb performer.”
Among his other recording projects are two discs of unaccompanied works by Bach and Ysaÿe released by Fine NF, the Busoni Sonatas on Naxos, and the Formosa Quartet’s debut album on EMI.
Joseph Lin was a founding member of
the Formosa Quartet, with whom he performed extensively in the US , Taiwan ,
and the UK
2nd Place - Tatiana Samouil (Russia)
Tatiana Samouil is a Russian violinist with roots in the rich Russian tradition.
Born into a musical St. Petersburg family, Tatiana took up the violin at the age of six. Just three years later, she made her solo debut with the Moldavian National Symphony Orchestra. Tatiana then entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory to study with Sergey Fatkulin and Maya Glezarova, receiving Special Mention with her diploma. She continued to study for a master's degree at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels under Igor Oistrakh, completing her studies with José Luis García at Madrid's Queen Sofía College of Music.
Tatiana's talent has been recognised at high profile competitions, such as the International Tchaikovsky Competition, where she won 3rd Prize in 2002. She has also won 1st Prize at the Prix Henry Vieuxtemps and Tenuto Competitions, as well as numerous prizes at the Michael Hill, Jean Sibelius and Queen Elizabeth competitions.
As a soloist, Tatiana has appeared with orchestras from all over the world, from the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra to the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa. Her performances have had a special emphasis on her native Russia, where she has appeared with the Russian National Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra. In her resident Belgium she has performed extensively with the country's leading orchestras, such as the National Orchestra of Belgium and the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra.
As an active chamber musician, Tatiana regularly works with such artists as Gérard Caussé, Augustin Dumay, Frans Helmerson, Katia and Marielle Labèque, and Sonia Wieder-Atherton, in addition to the recently founded Malibran String Quartet. These numerous collaborations have taken her to festivals around the world, including the Menton Festival in France and the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele in Germany.
Tatiana is also on the ascent as a recording artist. Her 2006 debut album of the complete Prokofiev violin sonatas with pianist Plamena Mangova received excellent reviews, including 5 stars from France's Diapason. In 2009 she was involved in the first ever collaboration between an Argentinian orchestra and Sony, recording Luis Gianneo's "Aymara" violin concerto with conductor Luis Gorelik and the Salta Symphony Orchestra. Tatiana plays a 1714 Stradivarius, once owned by the legendary Fritz Kreisler.
The highlights of the 2010 season are recitals in Moscow and St-Petersburg, Mozart-serie with Orchestra "Metropolitana" and Augustin Dumay; a TV recording for the MEZZO channel, festival engagements in Bucharest, Sophia, and Lissabon.
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Tatiana and her family including daughter Gemma and son Nikita.
The highlights of the 2010 season are recitals in Moscow and St-Petersburg, Mozart-serie with Orchestra "Metropolitana" and Augustin Dumay; a TV recording for the MEZZO channel, festival engagements in Bucharest, Sophia, and Lissabon.
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Tatiana and her family including daughter Gemma and son Nikita.
3rd Place - Alexandra Osborne (Australia)
Australian violinist Alexandra Osborne made her solo debut at the Sydney Opera House at only eight years of age. She has since appeared in concert with all of the major Australian orchestras, the Auckland Philharmonia, the SBS Radio & Television Orchestra (of which she was also Concertmaster), the University of Melbourne Symphony, and the South Bend Symphony, with whom she made her US solo debut in 2004. Ms. Osborne was appointed to The National Symphony Orchestra by Christoph Eschenbach as the youngest member of the violin section in 2009. Prior to this, she performed as a regular substitute with The Philadelphia Orchestra, including invitations for the 2006 Florida/Puerto Rico tour, and on its own chamber music series in Philadelphia. She has also performed with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Philly Pops and the Delaware Symphony.
A gold medalist of the 1999 Symphony Australia Young Performers Award, considered Australia’s largest and most grueling instrumental competition, Ms. Osborne is a laureate of the 2001 Michael Hill International Violin Competition and has been awarded 1st prizes in the Gisborne (New Zealand) International and the Australian National Concerto Competitions.
An active chamber musician, she has appeared at the Taos, Pan Pacific, Kneisel Hall and Sarasota Music Festivals, and was named a feature artist in the January 2007 Symphony magazine. She also appears regularly with the Jupiter Chamber Players in New York City, and has given numerous performances as part of both the University of Pennsylvania and the University of the Arts Composition programs, premiering several chamber music works in the Philadelphia region.
Ms. Osborne has performed for numerous international artists including Yehudi Menuhin, Pinchas Zukerman, Midori, Christian Tetzlaff, James Buswell, and Erich Gruenberg. In 2009, she collaborated with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for the Alice Tully Hall’s highly acclaimed Opening Night concert and performed the Mendelssohn Octet at Lincoln Center with members of the New York Philharmonic. Ms. Osborne enthusiastically supports and performs as a member of MusicAlive!, a non-profit organization exposing classical music to hundreds of children and adults throughout the east coast by means of community outreach.
Hailing from Sydney and a non-musician family, Ms. Osborne moved to the USA in 2001. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Pamela Frank, Aaron Rosand, Joseph Silverstein, and members of the Guarneri Quartet. She earned a Master of Music Degree from The Juilliard School studying with Ronald Copes of The Juilliard Quartet. This past summer she performed as Assistant Concertmaster at the Colorado Music Festival.
