Short Bio
Grace Lin Anderson is a concert cellist and Lecturer of Cello and Chamber Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, praised for her "rapier definition and boundless energy" (New York Concert Review) and "dazzling technique and musical expressiveness" (El Pueblo, Arequipa). As a soloist and chamber musician, her performances have spanned the Americas and Europe, including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the Aspen Music Festival, and Caramoor, with international engagements in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Canada, and Peru.
Her recent seasons trace a wide artistic range. In 2024, underwritten by WDAV Classical Public Radio, she toured Germany performing Bach's Solo Cello Suites at historic venues including Köthen Castle and St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. In 2025, she was concerto soloist in Peru with the Arequipa Symphony Orchestra (Dvořák) and the Orquesta de la Universidad Nacional de San Agustín (Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations), and appeared as soloist in Eric Whitacre's The Sacred Veil with the Winston-Salem Choral Artists at Piccolo Spoleto. She returned to Peru in 2026 for Schumann's Cello Concerto with the Arequipa Symphony Orchestra, alongside chamber music and solo recitals in Lima and Arequipa.
In North Carolina, Anderson is active across the state's chamber music scene, performing with Mallarmé Chamber Players, at Music at St. Alban's, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and Duke University, as a founding member of the Cypress Trio with violinist Jennifer Curtis and pianist Katya Kramer-Lapin. She has taught masterclasses at Duke University and East Carolina University.