Jon Lin Chua
Born in Singapore, Jon Lin has been named the Presser Scholar (a prestigious honor bestowed by the Presser Foundation) for the year 2016-17 of the Eastman School of Music, where she is a double major in composition and music theory, and also a recipient of the Howard Hanson Scholarship, Simon Rose Scholarship, and the National Arts Council of Singapore Arts Scholarship (Undergraduate) 2014. She is also a recipient of the Louis Lane Award (2016) and the Bernard Rogers Memorial Prize (2015). Her teachers in composition include composers Oliver Schneller, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, David Liptak, Robert Morris, and Robert Casteels. She has also participated in a composition masterclass with German composer-pianist Moritz Eggert. Currently, she is studying piano performance under the tutelage of classical/jazz pianist and pedagogue Tony Caramia, and has also received instruction from Vincent Lenti, piano professor at the Eastman School of Music.
As composer, she has worked with groups such as the MusicaNova Orchestra based in Phoenix, Arizona, as the orchestra’s composition fellow in the 2015-2016 season. Other groups she has worked with include the Eastman Chorale, the Southeastern Ensemble for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Sounds (SETTS), the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, the Guitar Ensemble of the National University of Singapore, the Zen Ensemble, and has premiered works in festivals such as the National University of Singapore Arts Festival (2012), and the Women in Music Festival (2014). Jon Lin was also invited to presented her paper A Collapse of Musical Categories?: A Closer Look at Ethnic Chinese Music within the Chinese Conservatory Tradition Today at the Composition in Asia International Symposium and Festival held in the University of Florida (2015). Prior to pursuing her degree in music, Jon Lin obtained a B.A. (Hons) in philosophy from the National University of Singapore.