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Chaoyang Lin (aka Salt) is one of
the most renowned violinists, composers and producers in contemporary China.
In 1988, Salt successfully competed at the Portsmouth International String
Quartet Competition where he was awarded the fourth prize with the Shanghai
Conservatory String Quartet. In the same year, he was sent by the Chinese National
Education Commission to the Moscow State Conservatory (i. e. P. I. Tchaikovsky) for further studies under the tutelage of the
legendary violinist Zoria Shikhmurzayeva.
In the late 1990s, Salt was active in the performance
circuit, playing with major Chinese orchestras such as Shanghai Symphony
Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra etc. He also collaborated with important Chinese
composers including Zuqiang Wu, Wenjing Guo, and Xiaogang Ye, making important contributions to the development of Chinese contemporary music. During this
period, Salt’s musical activities attracted the
attention of the late master musician Isaac Stern and were featured in the
follow-up sequel to the film From Mao To
Mozart, an Oscar-winning documentary.
Salt has been giving violin classes in the Chinese Central
Conservatory of Music since 1996. He has nurtured a number of excellent
musicians like Xiaomao Wang (the concertmaster of The National Ballet of China), Congcong Wang (soloist and prize
winner of international competitions), Jingye Zhang ( the concertmaster of Beijing
Symphony Orchestra), as well as many other accomplished musicians who work in orchestras
all over the world. In recent years, Salt
has issued a series of tutorial video works, including Secrets of Violin Playing, Violin
Playing Skills, as well as many demonstration video disks for teaching classical violin pieces, such as Songs of the Wanderers, the Polonaise, Introduction and Tarantella, in total, more than 80 pieces of music.
Since 2005, Salt has also branched out into the
fields of pop music and electronic music. He has collaborated with Ding Wei, one of China’s unique and most
celebrated artists, to
create and produce numerous pop music works, including
Ding Wei’s latest album entitled Untied, released in the UK by Cocking Vinyl.
Over the years, Salt
has worked with various filmmakers in China, composing
music scores for films and TV dramas. His oeuvres include music for TV dramas
such as Ruyi’s Royal Love in
the Palace, Vicissitudes in the Republic of China, Dwelling Narrowness, The
Mobile Phone, My Brother Shunliu, Falling Leaves in Chang’an, You Are My Brother, Rise
and Fall, If Life Had Cheated You, Tangshan Earthquake, 10 Years in Love; and for movies such as Qiu Xi, Zhalannuoer, The Tattoo, The 1911
Revolution, Love Is not Blind among others.
