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Victor Lin (2010)
Visit Website	Those lucky enough to know Seattle-born Victor Lin from his recordings and performances immediately think of him as a pianist, but he has at least two more strings to his bow. After some three decades (can it be?) he still plays his first instrument, the violin, and does so to a professional standard, too, having played that instrument as part of both Frank Vignola’s Hot Club USA and The Howard Fishman Quartet. He's also an educator, of which more in a moment. Victor studied music at the undergraduate level at the University of Washington. After graduation, he moved east to Rutgers University, where he studied with pianist Kenny Barron, and was awarded his master's degree. Since doing the opposite of what Horace Greely recommended, he's been performing all over the New York scene at locations such as The Blue Note and Knickerbocker. His first recording, "Live at Cobi's Place" with David Wong and Obed Calvaire, remains an unfortunately well-kept secret. Victor has a passion for education. He teaches jazz piano and jazz ensembles at Columbia University Teachers College (where he's finishing his doctorate in music education—in his little spare time, as it were), and directs the jazz program at The Calhoun School, a private progressive education school on the upper west side of Manhattan. For three years he's taught at the Mark O’Connor Fiddle Camp, and, closer to home here in the Bay Area, he's racked up no fewer than a dozen years on the faculty of the Stanford Jazz Workshop. Victor's strategic focus as an educator includes the exploration of how best to use music as a means of education about larger issues of culture, race, and society. As he himself puts it as a first-generation American-born Taiwanese, he "hopes that his skills as a musician and an educator will serve to raise awareness and break down perceptions of the stereotypes of all races and cultures."

Victor Lin (2010)

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Those lucky enough to know Seattle-born Victor Lin from his recordings and performances immediately think of him as a pianist, but he has at least two more strings to his bow. After some three decades (can it be?) he still plays his first instrument, the violin, and does so to a professional standard, too, having played that instrument as part of both Frank Vignola’s Hot Club USA and The Howard Fishman Quartet. He's also an educator, of which more in a moment.

Victor studied music at the undergraduate level at the University of Washington. After graduation, he moved east to Rutgers University, where he studied with pianist Kenny Barron, and was awarded his master's degree. Since doing the opposite of what Horace Greely recommended, he's been performing all over the New York scene at locations such as The Blue Note and Knickerbocker. His first recording, "Live at Cobi's Place" with David Wong and Obed Calvaire, remains an unfortunately well-kept secret.

Victor has a passion for education. He teaches jazz piano and jazz ensembles at Columbia University Teachers College (where he's finishing his doctorate in music education—in his little spare time, as it were), and directs the jazz program at The Calhoun School, a private progressive education school on the upper west side of Manhattan. For three years he's taught at the Mark O’Connor Fiddle Camp, and, closer to home here in the Bay Area, he's racked up no fewer than a dozen years on the faculty of the Stanford Jazz Workshop.

Victor's strategic focus as an educator includes the exploration of how best to use music as a means of education about larger issues of culture, race, and society. As he himself puts it as a first-generation American-born Taiwanese, he "hopes that his skills as a musician and an educator will serve to raise awareness and break down perceptions of the stereotypes of all races and cultures."

Pick	Artist	Album	Song	Label
# 1	Stan Getz and Kenny Barron	People Time	Night and Day	Verve
# 2	Wynton Marsalis	Live at Blues Alley	Knozz Moe King	Columbia
# 3	Brad Mehldau	Art of the Trio, Vol. 4: Back at the Vanguard	Exit Music (For a Film)	Warner Bros
# 4	Joshua Redman	Spirit of the Moment: Live at the Village Vanguard	Jig-A-Jug	Warner Bros
# 5	Ray Brown	Live at Starbucks	When I Fall in Love	Telarc
# 6	Duke Ellington	Three Suites	Danse of the Floreadores	Columbia
# 7	Benny Green	Testifyin'	McThing	Blue Note

Book	The Bible, or something by David Halberstam, e.g., "The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship"

Luxury Item	Spectacles, or a nice steak sandwich.

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