Specialty: Performance, Strings, Violin
Email: k.mclin@asu.edu
WebPage: http://music.asu.edu
Bio:
Violinist Katherine McLin enjoys an extremely varied and prolific performing career, performing on average 50 concerts a year as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber and orchestral musician. Since her debut with the Oregon Symphony at the age of fifteen, Dr. McLin has made over three dozen appearances as soloist with orchestras across the country.
Recent appearances include a triple concerto with jazz violinist Regina Carter of Dave Brubeckšs Interplay at the National ASTA Conference in Reno, NV in 2005 as well as concerti with the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra (CO), Tempe Symphony Orchestra (AZ), and the Brevard Festival Repertory Orchestra (NC). She has served as a featured performer at the International Schoenberg Conference (2005), National MTNA (Music Teacher's National Association) Conference in Salt Lake City (2003), the IPAC (International Percussive Arts Conference) in Columbus, OH (2002), SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US) in Tempe (2003), and the IDRS (International Double Reed Society) Conference in Tempe (1997). A member of the McLin/Campbell Duo with pianist Andrew Campbell and Trio del Sol (with Robert Spring, clarinetist, and Campbell) she performs extensively on recital series throughout the U.S.
As a past member of the Alorian String Quartet, Dr. McLin recorded two compact discs under the Opus One label and performed on Bob Sherman's "Listening Room" program, broadcast live to an audience of two million people on NYC's WQXR. She holds additional chamber music recordings under the Summit and Centaur Records label, including a world premier recording of a trio by Almeida Prado with horn player Thomas Bacon and pianist Caio Pagano on Summit records, released 10/06. Her live performances have been broadcast on NPR's Performance Today, Arizona's KBAQ, and local radio stations across the country. Dr. McLin has been a frequent guest recitalist and masterclass clinician at dozens of schools including North Carolina School for the Arts, Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Oregon, University of Georgia, University of Kentucky, West Virginia University, Texas Christian University, and University of Miami, to name a few. She currently serves as Concertmaster of the Columbus ProMusica Orchestra in Ohio, and in the past has served as Concertmaster of the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, the Michigan Sinfonietta, and the Aspen Sinfonia Orchestra, and Principal Second Violin of the Michigan Opera Theater Orchestra.
Currently associate professor of Violin at the Arizona State University School of Music as well as Artist Faculty at the Brevard Music Center, Katherine McLin received her doctorate in violin performance from the University of Michigan as a student of Paul Kantor. She holds additional performance degrees from Indiana University and the Oberlin College Conservatory, and for three years was an orchestral fellowship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival. Her former teachers include Franco Gulli, Josef Gingold, and Kathleen Winkler.
A committed and passionate teacher, Dr. McLin won the 2004 Distinguished Teacher Award for the College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University, chosen from over 170 faculty, and was a finalist for the 2007 university-wide ASU Professor of the Year award. Former students of Dr.McLin's include members of the Quebec, Phoenix, and Flint Symphony Orchestras, Arizona Opera Orchestra, Concertmaster of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Concertmaster of the Seoul National Symphony, and faculty members of Mercer University, Georgia Southern University, Westminster College (PA), Southeastern College (FL), and Grove City College (PA). Dr. McLin's students regularly participate in summer festivals such as Aspen, Blossum, Tanglewood, Meadowmount, NRO, Musicorda, and Brevard.
Graduates have gone on to performance programs at the Juilliard School, Cleveland Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Michigan, to name a few.
Dr. McLin's 2007-2008 concert schedule includes concerto appearances with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra (OH), Salem Chamber Orchestra (OR), Tempe Symphony Orchestra (AZ), and Musica Nova (Scottsdale, AZ), performing works by Arnold, Bach, Beethoven, and Gal. Other solo and chamber music engagements include concerts in North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, Oklahoma, Michigan, and Arizona. |
