Canadian-Chinese violinist Jasmine (Meng Jia) Lin began playing the violin at the age of four. She was awarded the grand prize at the 2014 Kocian International Violin Competition and received a 2018 Canada Council for the Arts Instrument Bank loan. She has performed with the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Pardubice and has participated in leading festivals such as the Schiermonnikoog Festival (Netherlands), Toronto Summer Music, Gstaad Menuhin Academy and Kneisel Hall (Blue Hill, Maine).
She received her bachelor and master of music degrees from the Juilliard School, studying with Masao Kawasaki. She continued her studies at the Manhattan School of Music with Nicholas Mann, Sheryl Staples and Sylvia Rosenberg, and began doctoral studies at Rice University under Cho-Liang Lin. Prior to this, she studied with Atis Bankas in her hometown of Toronto at the Taylor Academy of the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Jasmine Lin joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s second violin section in July 2026.
