FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Sept. 19, 2003
CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119

CHIU-LING LIN TO GIVE STALNAKER LECTURE AT DRAKE THURSDAY

Chiu-Ling Lin, professor of piano and chair of the music department at Drake University, will give the annual Luther W. Stalnaker Lecture at Drake on Thursday, Sept. 25. The lecture is titled "Capturing the Muse of Music: Communicating Creativity through Pedagogy and Performance."

The event, which is free and open to the public, will start at 7 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main, 25th Street and University Avenue.

Great performing artists are often called "gifted" and "talented," but rarely "creative," Lin said. "This belies a fundamental misunderstanding of the composer, the score and the process that brings life to it. This is the challenge of the performer, the music scholar and teacher, all of whom seek to articulate the vision of the composer and share with her the creative process."

A member of the Drake faculty since 1976, Lin teaches studio piano and piano pedagogy courses. She received her bachelor's degree from New England Conservatory of Music and her master's and doctoral degrees from Indiana University.
As a soloist and recitalist, Lin has been enthusiastically received around the world. She has appeared in performances in New York, Boston, Chicago and England and throughout the Far East, where she has featured music of Chinese as well as Western composers. Critics have lauded her playing, specifically her "great sense of style, emotional strength and impressive quality in performance."

In addition to winning numerous competitions, Lin also was chosen as the artistic ambassador for the United States Information Agency in 1991 and made extensive solo appearances in Peru, Argentina and Brazil. She is the principal keyboard player of the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra and recently released a CD titled "Portraits of China," featuring Chinese piano music.

Lin's lecture will be the 19th of the series at Drake honoring the memory of Luther W. Stalnaker, dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1940 to 1954. This series is a joint undertaking of the College of Arts and Sciences and its emeriti faculty. For more information, call (515) 271-3939.