IAN LIN is a pianist, composer, and violinist from Wakefield, Rhode Island. He studies piano with Professor Jonathan Bass (New England Conservatory Preparatory School) and privately with Professor Wei-Yi Yang (Yale). 

Ian regularly plays solo recitals for retirement communities and has also played at Carnegie Hall and Boston Symphony Hall. He was featured as the Young Artist for the Kingston Chamber Music Festival’s Young Artist Recital in 2024 and has been presented by Core Memory Music. 

His recent honors include being named a 2026 YoungArts Winner with Distinction in Classical Music/Piano and a recipient of a full scholarship from the Chopin Foundation of the United States. He has also won the Vancouver Piano Sessions Concerto Competition and East Carolina Piano Festival Competition. 

He has appeared as soloist with the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, the Long Bay Symphony, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Symphony Orchestra.  

As a composer, Ian has received Tribeca New Music’s Emerging Composer Award and an honorable mention at ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer Competition, and has earned MTNA composition honors, including national Third Prize and several Eastern Division wins. 

Ian is active in chamber music through NEC Prep’s CHIPS program and was a quarterfinalist in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition with the 0pus 67 trio at Temple Music Prep.  

As a violinist, Ian is in the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and was formerly concertmaster of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and a member of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra.