Grace Lin Anderson

Praised for her “boundless energy and rapier definition” (New York Concert Review) and “transforming performance” (Classical Voice of North Carolina), cellist Grace Lin Anderson is a soloist and chamber musician with performances in the Americas and Europe.  She has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center of New York City, the Kennedy Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Aspen Festival, and in international festivals abroad, in Canada, France, Germany, Croatia, and the Netherlands.

In 2023-24, Grace had performed as soloist with the National University Orchestra in the Cathedral of Arequipa, Peru.  She had also performed in Germany Bach’s Solo Cello Suites and her arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for and with cellist Alan Black as part of WDAV’s tour In the Footsteps of Bach.  Her performances took place in venues where J.S. Bach had worked and lived, including the historical Köthen Castle in Anhalt and St. Thomas Church in Leipzig.

In North Carolina, Grace is a frequent chamber music collaborator. In recent years, she has performed at Mallamé Music, Music for a Great Space, the Eastern Music Festival, UNC Chapel Hill, UNC School of the Arts, Queens University of Charlotte and Wake Forest University.

As an artistic director and an educator, Grace had established and directed the Triad Chamber Music Society concert series and the Young Performers Chamber Music Workshop, for which she was twice nominated for the Swalin Best Educator Award by the North Carolina Symphony. She has taught at UNC-Chapel Hill and UNCSA summer chamber music programs, and appeared as a guest artist at Appalachian State University and East Carolina University. She is currently an adjunct instructor of cello at Queens University of Charlotte.

She received her B.A. from Harvard University, M.M. The Juilliard School, and D.M.A., UNC Greensboro.

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