Min (Maggie) Lin

Ms. Maggie Lin is an accomplished performer and teacher of the guqin and zheng, the Chinese plucked zithers. She belongs to the Guang Ling School of guqin performance. She began studying the zheng in 1987, and since 1992 she studied the guqin from Master Mei Riqiang of the Guang Ling School. In 1995, Ms. Lin began her guqin studies at The Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Under the tutelage of Professor Lin Youren, she further expanded her knowledge of guqin repertory, learning the quqin masterpieces from other schools of performance as well.

Ms. Lin moved to Vancouver, Canada in 2010, where she established a flourishing teaching studio. In 2012, she established the Vancouver Guqin Society and became its director. In the same year, she helped to design and implement a guqin examination syllabus for the Canadian Chinese Music Society and became one of their exam adjudicators for the zheng and guqin. From 2012 to 2014, she taught the guqin at the University of British Columbia and organized several successful student concerts.

(For those who are interested in the detailed introduction to the quqin arts, please consult the following Wikipedia page in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guqin or in Simplified Chinese: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/古琴)

林敏老师：广陵派古琴传人。1987年开始学习古筝，1992年师从中国最具影响力的广陵派第十一代宗师梅曰强先生学习古琴，1995年师从上海音乐学院古琴教授、音乐理论家、广陵派另一代表人物林友仁先生，并汲取其他各流派名家名曲之特长。20多年来一直从事古琴、古筝演出、教学，并多次参加大型音乐节目的录制和专访。2010年来到温哥华开始专职从事古琴、古筝教学，通过口碑相传使学琴人数不断增加，2012年成立了温哥华古琴学会并任会长，同年11月和本地加拿大中乐学会一起开设了古琴考级并任古筝和古筝考级评委。2012年到2014年应邀在UBC大学亚洲中心教授古琴，并连续两年在UBC成功举办师生古琴音乐会。