Fang-Yi Lin

Fang-Yi Lin is a pianist, composer, curator, editor, and cultural manager. She studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Michael Jarrel and Klaus Huber and completed an MFA with a focus on composition. In Taiwan, she studied piano and, as secondary subjects, oboe, cello, trumpet, and flute. Lin was also a guitarist in a band in Taiwan that won the first ICRT Young Star Award for pop music. Lin has received numerous awards, including the Austrian Ministry of Education’s scholarship for outstanding foreign students and the Austrian Ministry of Culture’s creative scholarship. 

After returning to Taiwan in 2002, Lin began composing for theater and dance performances, including Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters and director BABOO’s production of Heiner Müller’s Quartett. In 2011, she collaborated with choreographer Zheng Tsong-Long as sound designer on the piece On the Road, which won the Taishin Arts Award for Performing Arts. In 2011, Lin also became the main producer of the annual Asia Composer League (ACL) conference, for which she planned and organized performances of around 120 contemporary Taiwanese music pieces in various cities. In 2012, she was invited by eu-art-network to represent Taiwan in an international exchange program.   

At the same time, Lin published her composition A Touch of Myth, inspired by Shan Hai Jing. In 2013, she worked at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and was selected by the Cloud Gate Dance Cultural Foundation for the Wanderer project in 2014. 

Lin is also considered one of the most important critics of Taiwanese performance art. From 2016, she worked as a music consultant and columnist for Art-plus magazine in Taiwan, and from 2012-13 as a music critic for the National Theatre and Concert Hall. Since 2015, she has been working as a consulting editor for the National Performing Arts Center’s Performance Arts Review. 

As of October 2025