
Chiu-Tze Lin Music Director / Conductor
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The Bravura Philharmonic Young Virtuoso Trio
Christine Shieh, violinist
Courtney Lin Kaita, cellist
Constance Lin Kaita, pianist
After their outstanding performance at the
Arts Council of Princeton
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Christine Shieh, Violinist
At 17 years old, Christine is the concertmistress of the 2008-09 New Jersey All-State High School
Honor Orchestra. She is also a member of the 2009 MENC All-Eastern Honors Orchestra, a prestigious orchestra that selects
top musicians of thirteen east-coast states. She has won the silver medal of the Bravura Philharmonic Young Artists
Concerto Competition. Christine is a student of Hua-Yi Wang. Her former teachers were Naoka Tanaka and Fei-Ni Xu.
Christine has won the Grand Prize at the Young People’s Music Program’s Twentieth Anniversary String Competition.
In 2007, Christine was invited by the Shanghai International Chamber Music Festival and International
Children’s Cultural and Art Festival committee to perform as a featured soloist at various art centers in Shanghai
including the Shanghai Grand Theater, the performance was broadcasted by CCTV.
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Courtney Lin Kaita, Cellist
At 19 years old, Courtney is a student of Richard Aaron at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her
former teachers were Julie Albers, Marnie Kaller, Irene Sharp, Katrina Kormanski and Qiang Tu. Courtney was a
first prize winner of the New Jersey Music Teachers National Association Performance competition, and has represented
New Jersey three times in the solo Junior and Senior Strings Competition.
Courtney has appeared as the featured soloist with the Edison Symphony, Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra,
High Mountain Symphony, and the Manalapan Battleground Symphony. She has given solo performances in Alice
Tully Hall of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall and the Merkin Concert Hall. She has received
an Honorable Mention in the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition, and was featured
as a Rising Star at the first Beijing Music Festival, performing in venues including the Peoples Congress
Hall at Tiananman Square and the Forbidden City Concert Hall.
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Constance Lin Kaita, Pianist
At 14 years old Constance is a student of Dr. Chiu-Ling Lin. Constance former teachers were her
mother, Chiu-Tze Lin, and Prof. Ingrid Clarfield. Constance made her orchestral solo debut at the age of
nine with the Westfield Symphony. She has also performed as a soloist with the Philadelphia Biblical
University Orchestra and the Shanghai Chamber Orchestra. Constance has won numerous music awards,
including 1st prize for three consecutive years for her age group in the New Jersey Music Teachers
Association Young Musicians Competition, and first prize winner (twice) in the Steinway Scholarship
Competition of the Greater Princeton area.
Constance was one of the four students featured as the Rising Stars in the 2004 Beijing Music Festival,
the first international exchange of its kind sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Culture. She performed in the
prestigious Forbidden City Concert Hall, and the People’s Congress Hall. The performances ware broadcasted
on National Television across China. Constance has also appeared on the Kansas Public Radio as a winner
of the International Young Musicians Piano Competition. Constance has performed as a soloist on both piano
and violin in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, and the Steinway Hall.
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