Biography
Pianist Amy Lin was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States with her family as a youngster. She began studying the piano at the age of five, dividing her time between two passions: music and mathematics. Thanks to a merit scholarship in mathematics, she attended The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for a bachelor’s degree in math while also studying piano with Enrique Graf at the Peabody Institute.
There, she met the renowned pianist Leon Fleisher, and attended his weekly masterclasses for three years. After earning her math degree, she entered the Peabody Conservatory and spent the next ten years working intensively. Currently, Amy Lin is a professor at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg.
