Lin Daye
Music Director
Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, concurrently serving as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Wuxi Symphony Orchestra. His portfolio includes trusteeship at the Shenzhen Vitalization Symphony Development Foundation and Shenzhen International Exchange Foundation, membership in the Shanghai Youth Federation, professorship at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Composition & Conducting Department, and visiting professorships at the China Conservatory of Music, CUHK-Shenzhen School of Music, Tianjin Conservatory of Music, and Shenzhen University of Technology. He is a core member of Shanghai's “Elite Orchestra Training” innovation team.
Honoured with the 2020 & 2022 He Luting Artistic Achievement Awards and the 2020 China National Arts Fund Young Performing Artist Award, Lin made history in 2012 as the first Chinese winner of the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors’ Competition. He was named “Shenzhen’s Top Ten Outstanding Youth” in 2023.
Born in 1980, Lin trained under Professor Xin Xu (Central Conservatory of Music), Guoyong Zhang (Shanghai Conservatory of Music), and Professor Christian Ehwald at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, earning Germany’s Konzertexamen. His professional journey began as Resident Conductor of the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra (2009), followed by Associate Conductor of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra (2010-2015) where he led multiple international tours. The 2012 Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition victory secured his international standing, complemented by Guangdong Province’s “Outstanding Contribution to Music” award.
Having been appointed Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in September 2015, Lin assumed leadership of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra in May 2016. Under his baton, the orchestra has undertaken international tours, with notable engagements at the Ljubljana Festival, Romanian Radio International Festival, Emilia Romagna Festival, Merano Festival, Donizetti Festival, Città di Castello Festival, and Shanghai Spring International Music Festival.
His March 2023 appointment as Wuxi Symphony Orchestra’s founding Artistic Director culminated in conducting its inaugural New Year's Gala on January 1, 2024. Subsequent cultural diplomacy included leading Wuxi Symphony Chamber Orchestra to Manchester, London, Tokyo and Kyoto between June and July 2024, alongside critically acclaimed UK tours with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.
March 2025 marked another milestone as Lin became the first Chinese conductor to headline the opening concert of Russia’s Trans-Siberian Art Festival, followed by jury duties at the inaugural Classical Violin Olympus International Competition in April.
