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.::ARTISTS Chien-Kwan Lin Chien-Kwan Lin (b. 1972, Singapore) has appeared as soloist and guest artist with the New England Conservatory and Eastman Wind Ensembles, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Tanglewood Music Center Festival Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Portland (ME) Symphony, the Eastman Philharmonia, as well as the Boston and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestras.
Recent appearances by Mr. Lin have included recitals at the World Saxophone Congress, U.S. Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium, Saxorama Festival (Canada), Emerging Artists Series (Taiwan), as well as performances with the Fromm Players of Harvard University and the Formosa Chamber Music Society of New York. His recent six-cities concert/master class tour took him to some of Asia's top conservatories, including National Taipei University for the Arts, Mahidol University (Thailand), as well as the Shenyang, Sichuan and Central (Beijing) Conservatories in China. In 2004, Mr. Lin was profiled on the cover of Saxophone Journal. His recording of Eastman colleague, David Liptak's Serenade for Alto Sax & String Orchestra, which John Pitcher of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle called "brilliantly recorded," is available on Bridge Records. Since winning top prizes in Singapore's National Music Competition four consecutive times (violin category), Chien-Kwan Lin has enjoyed a multi-faceted career. He won a Best Conductor Award at Singapore's National Band Leaders Festival, and also worked for several years as a jazz violinist. In addition, Mr. Lin has appeared as orchestral violinist with northeastern groups including the New Hampshire Symphony, the Indian Hill Symphony, and the Hannover (NH) Chamber Orchestra. Chien-Kwan Lin is currently Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the Eastman School of Music. He is an artist/clinician for Vandoren and Conn-Selmer instrument companies. Mr. Lin received his education from the New England Conservatory and Eastman. His teachers have included Ken Radnofsky and Ramon Ricker. He resides with his wife, pianist Pi-Lin Ni, in Rochester, New York. Mr. Lin performs exclusively on Selmer instruments.
John Mastroianni John has performed as a professional musician since he was fifteen years old. His talents as a saxophonist, woodwind doubler, composer, and arranger have led him to a diversity of musical experiences. John has performed, toured and/or recorded with artists such as Mel Lewis, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Smokey Robinson, Louie Bellson, Charli Persip and Supersound, Harvie Swartz, Jim McNeely, Jay Leonhart, Rufus Reid, Gerry Mulligan, Lew Anderson, Clint Holmes, Roger Kellaway, the Glenn Miller Band, Sonny Costanzo, Johnny Mathis, Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Donna Summer, Tony Bennett, Barry Manilow, Nick Brignola, the New England Jazz Ensemble, and many others! He also has performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Norwalk, New Haven, and Hartford Symphonies, and at the Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun, Shubert, Palace, Goodspeed Opera House and Oakdale theaters. John also played in the orchestra for the Broadway(NYC) production of “Three Penny Opera.” John’s three recordings as a leader, entitled Cookin’ On All Burners (Stash), The Time Being (Jazz Alliance), and Live at the Silvermine (Jazzheads), have all earned him critical acclaim. He is also a featured soloist and composer/arranger on the New England Jazz Ensemble recordings, Version 3.0 (Brownstone), Storm Before the Calm (Sea Breeze), Wishes You A Cookin’ Christmas (Sea Breeze), and Live at the Pittsfield Jazz Festival (Sea Breeze). In addition to being a free-lance musician, John performs with his own quartet, and leads his own sixteen piece jazz orchestra that he composes and arranges all of the music for. John’s music has been performed and recorded by his quartet and jazz orchestra, the Sonny Costanzo Big Band, the John Allmark Jazz Orchestra, the Army Blues Band (Washington D.C.), the New England Jazz Ensemble, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, DIVA, and many high school, college, and professional jazz ensembles throughout the United States. His big band charts are currently published by Walrus Music Publishing/Otter Distributors. John has also written a piece for chamber orchestra and soprano saxophone which is currently published by Dorn Publications. John has taught at New York University, Albertus Magnus College, the University of Bridgeport, the New York State Summer School for the Arts, Bridgeport Central High School, and New Canaan High School. Currently, he is the Director of Bands at Hall High School in West Hartford, an adjunct jazz faculty member at the University of Connecticut and Quinnipiac University, and the founder and music director of the Young Artists Summer Jazz Workshop. In December 2002, John was named by SBO Magazine as one of 50 directors in the United States that “make a difference,” and in March 2004, John was chosen by the Connecticut Music Educators Association (CMEA) as the Secondary School Teacher of the Year.Previous Guest Artists: 1983 - Larry Teal, Paul Cohen, Bob Kindred |
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Mr. Lin's performances have garnered tremendous praise from critics in New York and Boston. His critically-acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut recital prompted New York Concert Review to portray him as a performer "who has the passion and restraint and beautiful sense of line to take melody where it wants to go, fully and generously," while the Boston Globe has lauded him for "displaying chops" and has described his playing as "polished," "charismatic," and "appealing."