Music Director and Conductor
Chiu-Tze Lin, Music Director and Conductor, is a versatile and multifaceted musician - conductor, pianist, and teacher. Ms. Lin served as the music director and conductor of the Manalapan Battleground Symphony for seven years. Under her baton, the  symphony received the 2004 Victor Grossinger Award for Innovative Programming.
Chiu-Tze Lin started conducting at the age of eleven. Her past experience includes conducting the AT&T Bell Labs Sinfonia in Holmdel and the Woodland Ensemble. As the music director of the Princeton Presbyterian Church, she had developed a program that included a chamber orchestra which performed weekly. She has also directed choirs and orchestras in major oratorios in the Greater Princeton area.
Ms. Lin was selected as a “Hottest Artist in New Jersey” in 2001 by the Asbury Park Press. As a concert pianist, Ms. Lin has been acclaimed by the New York Times for her “strong technique, a hearty tone that sounded big and unforced [which] provides the greatest musical pleasure.” She is a Steinway Artist who has performed in Asia, Europe, and across the United States. Ms. Lin has appeared as a touring soloist with the Chicago Symphony, and was a soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony. Her second CD featuring works of J. S. Bach for solo piano has been described by New York Concert Review  magazine as a "most satisfying performance .... with eloquence and sensitivity." This recording has also been selected by the Bravo Baroque organization as a recommended keyboard CD. Her recordings have been broadcast from stations across the country.
Ms. Lin was the director and a faculty member of the 2004 Beijing Music Festival, the first international summer music festival sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Culture for international exchange. This past summer, Ms. Lin was the music director of the Northeastern American Arts Troupe for the International Shanghai Arts Festival the summer of 2007. She conducted the Shanghai Musicians Chamber Orchestra at the Sino-American Cultural Exchange concert in the prestigious Shanghai Grand Theatre. It was broadcast on CCTV-9, the Chinese Central Television English Channel, which transmitted the program across China and around the world.
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