Grace Lin Anderson

Grace Lin Anderson is a soloist and chamber musician and Lecturer of Cello and Chamber Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose performances have spanned the Americas and Europe, including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, 92nd Street Y, Bargemusic, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Trinity Church Wall Street (broadcast on BBC television), and Caramoor, as well as new-music performances at the Aspen Music Festival and National Sawdust in Brooklyn. She has also performed in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Canada, and Peru.

Critics have praised Anderson's "rapier definition and boundless energy" (New York Concert Review), her "elegant style and unerring facility" (Classical Voice of North Carolina), and her "dazzling technique and musical expressiveness," noting a "virtuosity, sensitivity and generosity that left an indelible mark on the Arequipa community" (El Pueblo, Arequipa).

In recent seasons, Anderson has moved between centuries of repertoire, from Bach to a world premiere. In 2024, underwritten by WDAV Classical Public Radio, she toured Germany performing Bach's Solo Cello Suites and her own cello-duo arrangement of the Goldberg Variations, at Köthen Castle and St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. In 2025, she was concerto soloist in Peru with the Arequipa Symphony Orchestra (Dvořák) and the Orquesta de la Universidad Nacional de San Agustín (Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations), and appeared as soloist in Eric Whitacre's The Sacred Veil with the Winston-Salem Choral Artists and at Piccolo Spoleto. She returned to Peru in 2026 to perform Schumann's Cello Concerto with the Arequipa Symphony Orchestra, gave solo recitals in Lima and Arequipa, and presented the Peruvian premiere of Pauchi Sasaki's Unus Versus. She has also performed at the International Musique Festival Saint Georges in Guadeloupe.

In North Carolina, Anderson performs widely across the state, including through the Secrest Artist Series at Wake Forest University, in recital with pianist Hélène Jeanney, and as a founding member of the newly formed Cypress Trio with violinist Jennifer Curtis and pianist Katya Kramer-Lapin, with upcoming concerts at Music at St. Alban's and Mallarmé Chamber Players in 2027. She has also appeared at the Bechtler Museum of Contemporary Art and Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and at Duke University and UNC campuses statewide.

Anderson founded and directed the Triad Chamber Music Series and the Young Performers Chamber Music Workshop, earning two North Carolina Symphony Best Educator nominations, and has taught masterclasses at Duke University and East Carolina University.

Anderson holds an AB from Harvard University and an MM from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Fred Sherry, followed by further studies with Bernard Greenhouse of the Beaux Arts Trio. She holds a DMA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where her doctoral dissertation was published by Scholars' Press.

Anderson is a recipient of awards from Concert Artists International, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and was awarded the Braverman Prize from Harvard University and the Morse Fellowship from The Juilliard School. 

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