Bio

---

Grace Lin Anderson is a soloist and chamber musician whose international performances have spanned the Americas and Europe. Recent performance highlights include summer 2025 solo appearances with the Arequipa Symphony Orchestra performing Dvorak's Cello Concerto and with the Symphony Orchestra of the National University San Agustín performing Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations, and solo Bach recitals at historic venues in Germany including Köthen Castle and St. Thomas Church in Leipzig.

The upcoming 2025-26 season features chamber music at the International Musique Festival Saint Georges in Guadeloupe and performances throughout North Carolina including featured cello soloist in Eric Whitacre's The Sacred Veil with the Winston Salem Choral Artists at Wake Forest University's Brendle Recital Hall, chamber music performances at Music at St. Alban's, Salem Bach Festival, Carrboro Arts Center, Mallarmé in North Carolina.

Career highlights include solo and chamber performances at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, 92nd Street Y, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and prestigious festivals including Caramoor and Scotia. She has appeared in a live BBC television broadcast of Schubert's String Quintet at Trinity Church Wall Street, soloed with the Juilliard Percussion Ensemble, and served as cellist in residence for the contemporary music ensemble at Aspen Music Festival. Anderson has performed internationally in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Canada, and Peru.

Critics have praised Anderson for her "rapier definition and boundless energy" (New York Concert Review) and noted being "bowled over by Anderson's elegant style and unerring facility" (Classical Voice of North Carolina). Her recent appearances in Peru were noted for "dazzling with refined technique and musical expressiveness" and her "virtuosity, sensitivity and generosity that left an indelible mark on the Arequipa community" (El Pueblo).

Now based in North Carolina, Anderson is a sought-after chamber musician who has performed with Mallarmé at Carolina Performing Arts at UNC Chapel Hill, at Duke University, and through the Secrest Artist Series at Wake Forest University. She has also appeared at distinguished cultural venues including the Bechtler Museum of Contemporary Art and Reynolda House Museum of American Art, as well as at UNC School of the Arts and UNC campuses statewide. As an artistic director and educator, she founded and directed the former Triad Chamber Music concert series and the Young Performers Chamber Music Workshop, and was a two-time nominee for the North Carolina Symphony's Best Educator Award.

Anderson holds degrees from Harvard University and The Juilliard School, where she studied with Fred Sherry, and later continued her studies with the renowned Bernard Greenhouse of the Beaux Arts Trio. She earned her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and her doctoral dissertation has been published by Scholars' Press. She currently teaches at Queens University of Charlotte, and holds cello workshops in North Carolina and in Virginia.

Anderson is a recipient of awards from Concert Artists International, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and was awarded the Braverman Prize from Harvard University and the Morse Fellowship from The Juilliard School.

(August, 2025)

Short Bio