Yi-Chen Lin
Yi-Chen Lin comes from a family of musicians in Taipei, Taiwan. Having moved to Vienna as a child, she was trained and educated there first as a violinist and a pianist, later as conductor. Yi-Chen Lin was mentored by conductors like Zubin Mehta, Alberto Zedda, Bernard Haitink and David Zinman.
Since 2020/21, Yi-Chen Lin has been Kapellmeister and Musical Assistant to the GMD at the Deutsche Oper Berlin where she made her internationally acclaimed debut with a new production of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek.
Highlights of the 2022/23 season include debuts at the Royal Danish Opera (Carmen), a new production at Oper Frankfurt (Die Kluge & Der Zar läßt sich photographieren), Staatstheater Stuttgart (Don Giovanni), as well as concerts with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and the Opéra Orchestre National de Montpellier. She received re-invitations from the Orquesta Sinfónica RTVE Madrid and to the Bregenz Festival for the revival of Madama Butterfly. She also continues at Deutsche Oper Berlin with numerous repertoire performances (Carmen, Zauberflöte, Fledermaus, Barbier, Simon Boccanegra, Un ballo in maschera).
Yi-Chen Lin made her conducting debut with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in 2009. Concert invitations have taken her to Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Germany and Austria, where she has worked as a guest with orchestras such as the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, hr Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona, Orquestra Gulbenkian Lisbon, Basque National Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife.
Yi-Chen Lin has received regular invitations to festivals such as the Rossini Festival Pesaro, Italy, the Quincena Musical in San Sebastián and Festival de San Lorenzo, Spain. Her opera engagements include invitations to the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid (Carmen), Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Teatro Principal in Palma de Mallorca (L'Elisir d'amore & Les contes d'Hoffmann) and Ópera de Tenerife (Il viaggio a Reims).
