Wei Lin Sigurgeirsson

violin

Wei Lin is the founder and Chairman of the Lin Yao Ji Music Foundation and the Lin Yao Ji Research Center for Violin Pedagogy in China. She also founded and chaired the Harpa International Music Academy in Iceland and the Atlanta Festival Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. In this capacity, she has organized and given master classes and concerts at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing; the Hong Kong Cultural Centre; and Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, featuring internationally renowned musicians and rising young stars. She has been a juror/panelist at numerous international competitions and festivals, including the Lin Yao Ji International Competition for Violin Composition and the 4th Schoenfeld International String Competition. Wei Lin is compiling a collection of her father’s violin teaching methods, designed for students from beginner to advanced levels. Of the planned six-volume series, Wei Lin has published the first book with the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and the second book is scheduled for release in the spring of 2026. Wei Lin was born in Guangzhou in 1964. She grew up in Beijing, where her parents were both professors at the Central Conservatory of Music. She began studying the violin with her father, Professor Lin Yao-Ji, at the age of seven, and the piano with her mother, Professor Hu Shi-Xi, at the age of eight. She commenced her formal music training at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she continued her studies of the violin with Lin Yao-Ji. In 1985, she received a scholarship from the City of London to study with Professor Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, under the Solo Advanced Study Course, where she completed her studies in 1988. Wei Lin has been a member of the 1st violin section in the Iceland Symphony Orchestra since 1990. During extended leaves of absence from the Iceland Symphony, she has served as concertmaster of the Hong Kong Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra and played with the Baltimore Symphony and the Washington Chamber Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. She has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and various ensembles in Europe, the United States, and Asia. Wei Lin has been a violin teacher at the Reykjavik College of Music, the Purcell School of Music in London, and the Yip Academy in Hong Kong. She was her father’s teaching assistant intermittently from 1996-2008. She has taught at the Reykjavik College of Music since 1990. She has taught and given master classes in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the United States, and China. Lin Wei was invited to give a talk about her late father, Prof. Lin Yao Ji, and his musical life and teaching concept at the Royal Academy of Music in London during the Menuhin Competition in 2016.