Conducting Fellow

Xiaosha Lin’s extensive experience as a choral director includes collegiate choirs, children’s choirs, and church choirs. Lin was appointed as assistant condcutor at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) where she assisted with the University Choir and Women’s Chorus. During her time at HKBU, she also assisted Dr. John Winzenburg in editing Half Moon Rising, an Asian choral music collection published by Edition Peters in 2015. Lin simultaneously held a conducting position with Hong Kong Yip’s Children’s Choir, specializing with adolescent voices. Lin also was an active guest conductor and clinician with multiple church choirs in both Guangzhou and Shantou, China.

Lin is currently studying for her DMA in Choral Conducting at Michigan State University. She also earned her Master of Music in Choral Conducting at Westminster Choir College, Master of Arts in Music at Hong Kong Baptist University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education at Xinghai Conservatory of Music (China).  As a graduate student, her experience as a choral singer and conductor is extensive. She was assistant conductor with Michigan State University’s University Chorale and Choral Union, and the Westminster Chapel Choir. She has performed with Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra under the batons of Sir Simon Rattle, Alan Gilbert, Jane Glover, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin; While at Westminster, she toured and performed with the choir at the Spoleto Festival USA and World Symposium on Choral Music. Lin is thrilled to join the Chorus America Conducting Academy this summer.