Lin Daye

Music Director & Principal Conductor of Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra

Associate Head of Conducting Department, Shanghai Conservatory of Music

Prize winner of the 6th International Conductors’ Competition Sir Georg Solti

Distinguished young conductor, Daye Lin was born in 1980 in Shandong Province, China. He has studied conducting under tutelage of Prof. Xu Xin at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Prof. Zhang Guoyong at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin under the guidance of Prof. Christian Ehwald and obtained the Konzertexam certificate in Germany.

Between 2010 to 2015, Daye Lin was appointed as Principal Conductor of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra (GSO) and made several concert tours with the GSO in homeland and overseas. At the Shanghai “Music in the Summer Air” festival, in August 2010, he conducted London’s Royal Philharmonic. In October 2010 he conducted the Chinese premiere of Madame White Snake – the Pulitzer Prize-winning new opera co-commissioned from Zhou Long by Opera Boston and the Beijing Music Festival (BMF).

In 2011, he made a very successful North American debut with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. In 2012, Daye Lin won the First Prize at the 6th Sir Georg Solti International Conductors Competition which held in Frankfurt, Germany and being the first Chinese recipient of this competition. In 2013, he has awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award by Guangdong Musicians Association.

Highlights of 2013-2015 season include the world premiere of a major new work named A Symphonic Epic “Nine Odes” by Zhou Long at the Beijing Music Festival. In 2015, he has received the invitation from Mariinsky Theatre to attend the Musical Olympus International Music Festival and conducted the St Petersburg Symphony. In June 2015 he was chosen to replace Edo De Waart, and conducted the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in the new SSO Symphony Hall. In September, Daye Lin has appointed as the Associate Professor and Head of Teaching and Research of Conducting Department at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music under recommendation of conducting scholar-Mr Huang Xiaotong, conducting educator-Mr Zhang Guoyong and well-known conductor-Mr Yu Long. Recently, he has appointed as the Associate Head of Conducting Department at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

In 2016, Daye has conducted China Philharmonic Orchestra, Castillo y Leon Symphony Orchestra and the Composition Concert of Zhao Jiping at the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. In May, Daye has officially appointed as Music Director and Principal Conductor of Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra (SZSO). In September, he emergence his first appearance as music director with SZSO on the international stage of the Ljubljana Festival, Emilia Romagna Festival, Merano Festival as well as Radiro – International Radio Orchestras Festival in Romania invited by the Emilia Romagna Festival and Radio Romania.

Highlights of 2017/18 season include his appearance at the Filarmonica Artura Toscanini, Nürnberg Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM in Mexico and SZSO Belt & Road middle east Europe concert tour.

In 2019, once again invited by the Emilia Romagna Festival, Donizetti Festival and the state of Erlangen, Nuremburg to conduct SZSO at the Ljubljana Festival, Donizetti Festival, Festival delle Nazioni, Kammerphilharmonie dacapo München among others.

Music Director of Theater Lübeck, Germany
Artistic Director of the Neuberger Kulturtage

Stefan Vladar looks back at a decades-long career both as a pianist and as a conductor.
After winning the International Beethoven Piano Competition in 1985 his career as a pianist was predestined. Collaborations with some of the most famous conductors of his time, such as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Neville Marriner, Yehudi
Menuhin, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann, Sandor Vegh and Jaap van Zweden and orchestras like the Vienna Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Concertgebouw Orkest, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Camerata Salzburg, NHK Symphony Orchestra, to name just a few were following.
A recording contract with the major lable Sony Classical and invitations to perform at some of the most prestigious festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein and Rheingau Festival, Musikfest Bremen, Ravinia Festival Chicago, Mostly Mozart New York, the London Proms, Edinburgh Festival shaped the first year’s of his career.
Soon, however the desire to go beyond the limits of the piano and, in addition to the life as a pianist, a careful development of his conducting activities began.
After his first position as chief conductor in Graz, 11 years followed as music director of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra with which he was extensively touring around the world as well as having two concert series at the Vienna Konzerthaus, also repeatedly conducting from the keyboard in piano concertos.
Stefan Vladar worked as a guest conductor with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Residentie Orkest Den Haag, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Svetlanov Orchestra Moscow, and many others.
From 2019 Stefan Vladar has been general music director and currently also opera director in Lübeck, Germany, where, in addition to numerous symphony concerts, he has already conducted operas such as Mozart’s Magic Flute and Le nozze di Figaro, Verdi’s La Traviata, Dvorak’s Rusalka, Humperdinck’s Hänsel un Gretel, Montemezzi’s L’Amore dei tre re, Wagner’s Lohengrin, Strauss’ Salome, J. Strauss’ Fledermaus, Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine, Menotti’s The Telefone and Britten’s Owen Wingrave.
His work as a pianist and conductor is documented on more than 40 CDs.
Stefan Vladar has been artistic director of the Neuberger Kulturtage for more than 30 years and professor for piano at the University for Music and Performing Artx in Vienna from 1999.
Stefan Vladar was awarded the grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republik of Austria.