Dr. Annie Lin maintains an active career as both a soloist and as a collaborative pianist, performing concerts throughout North America, Asia, and Europe. Ms. Lin has performed at the California Association of Professional Music Teacher’s state convention in San Francisco, and has appeared in numerous concerts sponsored by the Pasadena Public Library, the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, and the Beverly Hills Library. In 1998, she was invited to perform at the opening concert of the Banff Centre for the Arts Festival in Alberta, Canada.

Dr. Lin has been a first-prize winner in competitions in Taiwan and the United States, including the California MTNA Collegiate Piano Competition. In addition to her performing and teaching career, she is often in demand as an adjudicator and clinician. She has recorded for Capital Records, where her compact disc features the recording premiere of compositions by Michael Garson. She recently recorded a solo piano album for BPC Recording’s premier compact disc release.

The former head of the piano division at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas, Dr. Lin has been an Assistant Professor at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and a Lecturer at the University of Southern California. Ms. Lin received her Bachelor degree in piano performance from USC studying with James Bonn, and subsequently received her Master and Doctorate of Musical Arts degrees in piano performance studying with John Perry. She not only received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Keyboard Division at USC, she also has the unique distinction of being named as the Outstanding Graduating Candidate in all three of her degree programs from the USC Thornton School of Music. Presently, Dr. Lin maintains a private studio and is on the faculty of the Brandeis Piano Conservatory in Richardson. She is currently authoring a beginning group piano method series for the Newsom Music Education, Inc., based in North Carolina.

Steven Hall

Dr. Hall has had extensive experience competing in national and international competitions, and received first prize in the Music Teachers National Association’s Collegiate Piano Competition. In 1986, he was selected as the first United States’ artist representative of the Ibach Piano Company of Germany since the company’s inception in 1794. He has released two nationally distributed compact discs featuring the Ibach piano on the ACA label.

Dr. Hall has also presented master classes and clinics throughout the United States. In the summer of 1996, he was a faculty member at the Tunghai International Music Festival; in the summer of 1997, he returned to Taiwan to present a series of master classes and teacher workshops.

Dr. Hall completed his DMA in Piano Performance at the University of Southern California School of Music where he received the Outstanding Doctoral Candidate in Keyboard Studies in May 1997, and the Award for Outstanding Departmental Teaching Assistant in March 1995.

In addition to an active performing career, clinician, adjudicator, and author, Dr. Hall is the founder and faculty member of the Brandeis Piano Conservatory in Dallas, Texas since 1997, where his students have distinguished themselves as first-prize winners in numerous competitions. He is also the President of BPC Recordings and serves on the Advisory Board of the Lennox International Young Artist Competition and the Board of the Dallas Music Teachers Association.