Students from the Friend's International Violin Academy (Rodney Friend-Artistic Director) perform in a public online masterclass with soloist and professor of Juilliard and Rice University Cho-Liang Lin (observer tickets available)
Currently music director of La Jolla SummerFest and the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival, he has performed as soloist with virtually every major orchestra in the world.
In his various professional capacities, Cho-Liang Lin has championed composers of our time. His efforts to commission new works have led a diverse field of composers to write for him. The list includes John Harbison, Christopher Rouse, Tan Dun, John Williams, Steven Stucky, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Bright Sheng, Paul Schoenfield, Lalo Schifrin, Joan Tower and many more. Recently, he was soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Nashville Symphony and Royal Philharmonic.
Our FIVA Masterclass series will be presented by an incredible line up of Internationally renowned violinists including: Pinchas Zukerman, Rodney Friend, Augustin Hadelich, Cihat Askin, Cho-Liang Lin, Joel Smirnoff and Yuzuko Horigome.
Friend's International Violin Academy / Masterclass Series (30th July-5th August 2020)