Grace Lin Anderson
Praised for her “rapier definition and boundless energy” (New York Concert Review), cellist Grace Lin Anderson has performed across North America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician. Following her solo debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, she has appeared at Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Brooklyn’s Bargemusic, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as at festivals including Caramoor, Scotia, and Aspen. Internationally, she has performed at festivals in Canada, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Recent highlights include a concert tour of Germany in 2024, where Anderson performed Bach’s Solo Cello Suites and her arrangement of the Goldberg Variations for cello duo with Alan Black at the historical Köthen Castle and the iconic St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. Her season continued with performances with Queens Chamber Players and with Mallarmé Music, with concerts at Duke University, UNC Wilmington, Queens University of Charlotte and the Carolina Performing Arts at UNC. She continues the season with recitals in North Carolina with pianist Dmitri Shteinberg and a concerto performance with the Arequipa National Symphony in Peru.
As an artistic director and an educator, Grace founded 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. As a teacher, she has given masterclasses at East Carolina University, Appalachian State University and MYCO Music, and she is currently an adjunct instructor of cello at Queens University of Charlotte.
Anderson received her B.A. from Harvard University, her M.M. from The Juilliard School, and her D.M.A. from UNC Greensboro.
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