Dr. Kevin Weng Lin, a native of Taiwan, has cultivated a distinguished career in music performance, education, and ensemble leadership. He is currently a Full-Time Instructor of Brass Studio at South Texas College. Before moving to Texas, Kevin was a freelancer in the Seattle area.
Over the past decade, Kevin has held positions with prestigious ensembles as a seasonal guest members such as the Macao Orchestra (2024–), Billings Symphony (2022–), Civic Orchestra of Chicago (2018–2024), and the New World Symphony (2018–). He has also performed with a wide range of professional groups, including the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Music Inc., Chicago Composer Orchestra, Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, and more. From 2021–2023, Kevin served as a Low Brass Adjunct Pool Instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College.
In addition to his teaching and performance work, Kevin has been an active contributor to the International Tuba/Euphonium Association (ITEA). His involvement includes publishing articles, serving as a guest soloist and artist at ITEC and regional conferences, and participating as a committee member. Through his dedication to music education and artistry, Kevin continues to inspire the next generation of musicians.
Kevin earned his Bachelor’s degree from the National Taipei University of Education in Taiwan, Master’s degree from DePaul University, and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Kevin’s primary mentors include John DiCesare, Tim Northcut, Floyd Cooley, Gene Pokorny, Charles Vernon, Mark Fisher, Fu-Hsuan Duan, Jun Miyanishi, and Wendy Chen.
1. Anthony Plog: Post Card V
2. JunYi Chow: Aeolian Dream (World Premier)
3. Luo Dan: Taiwanese Folk Song
This 20-minute recital explores the expressive breadth of the modern tuba through three distinctive works.
Well-known for his Three Miniatures, Anthony Plog showcases another side of his writing in Postcard V, an unaccompanied work that opens the program with vivid character and wit. Its five contrasting movements highlight the tuba’s full range of technical and expressive possibilities, balancing virtuosity, emotion, and humor.
Malaysian award-winning composer JunYi Chow’s Aeolian Dream (World Premiere) (World Premiere), a newly commissioned work, transforms the tuba into a vessel of air and motion, weaving shifting currents of sound that blur the boundary between lyricism and abstraction.
The program concludes with Dan Luo’s Taiwanese Folk Song. As a performer and native Taiwanese, I consistently collaborated with Taiwanese composers. This transcription is a poetic reflection on Taiwanese musical heritage that brings warmth and familiarity to the contemporary soundscape.
Together, these works invite listeners to experience the tuba not merely as a low brass instrument, but as a voice of imagination, memory, and human breath.
