Yuxuan Lin

Originally from Shenzhen China, Yuxuan Lin (b.2003) is currently a third-year composition major at the Juilliard School where she studies with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner. She began to play the piano at age six and later studied the guitar as well as the Chinese traditional instruments erhu and hulusi. She began her composition studies with Reiko Füting at the age of seventeen, following in the footsteps of her grandfather, a self-taught composer focusing on Chinese folk music.

Some of her other former mentors include Robert Beaser, David Conte, Kelin Wang and Colton Francis. Yuxuan’s music has been played in the Tokyo to New York: “Moments in This Time” Benefit Concert for Covid-19 Musicians Relief, at La Schola Cantorum in Paris where she attended the EAMA summer institute in 2022, at Putney VT where she attended the Young Artist Program of Yellow Barn, at the Atlantic Music Festival in Maine, as well as at The Juilliard School in New York.

The majority of her inspirations come from visual arts, photography, nature and architecture. She is intensely interested in the possibilities of combining visual art and music and seeks any opportunity to collaborate between art forms.