Yi-Hui Lin is one of the most active flautists in Greater China. As a soloist, she has been invited to perform and conduct master classes at the Shanghai He International Flute Summer Festival in 5 consecutive years from 2014 to 2019. In 2014, she was also invited to perform at the International Flute Competition Guangzhou as the vice president of the competition. In 2013, she was invited to play with the National Chiao Tung University Contemporary Ensemble at the International Festival of Music and Performing Arts at Burapha University in Thailand. In 2012, she also performed at the Concert of the Winning Works at the International Composition Prize in Hsinchu. She has also performed the flute concerto “Ascend/Descend” by Taiwanese composer Tzyy-Sheng Lee with the Fujian Symphony Orchestra at the Grand Hall of the Fujian Grand Theatre in 2010, and she toured China extensively as the spokesperson for Jupiter Music in 2009.
In 2006, she was featured as a soloist at the International Flute Festival I at the National Concert Hall in Taipei. She has also performed many concertos for both flute and piccolo, including the Concertino by Cécile Chaminade, the Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn arranged for flute by J. Balint, and the Concerto for 2 Flutes by Franz Doppler. In 2003, she was invited to play as a principal guest soloist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and to perform the Flute Concerto by Taiwanese composer Tsung-Hsien Yang at the Annual Convention of the National Flute Association.
Lin has also performed with many top flautists of the day, including duets with Gaby Pas-Van Riet, principal flute of the Südwestrundfunk Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart (National Concert Hall, Taipei, 2018), Loïc Schneider, the first flute soloist of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (National Concert Hall, Taipei, 2015), and Vincent Lucas, the principal flute of the Orchestre de Paris (Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong, 2014; International Flute Festival IV, National Concert Hall, Taipei, 2015). She has also performed the quartet by Friedrich Kuhlau with Emmanuel Pahud, principal flautist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Shanghai Anniversary Concert, Oriental Art Center, Shanghai, Sep. 2015).
Lin is a founding member of the Joueurs de Flûte Ensemble, with which she has performed many times in Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. The ensemble issued their first album, Moods of Taiwan, at Sunrise Records. As a chamber music player, Lin has also performed with the Taipei Flute Chamber Ensemble in 2006 and toured New York, Boston, and Vancouver with the Taipei Chamber Players in 1999.
Lin is an active promoter of contemporary music, playing annually at various festivals such as Taipei International New Music Festival, Spring Autumn Music, and Music Making Collective. As an educator, Lin teaches at National Chiao Tung University as an adjunct assistant professor. She published her years of experience of teaching master classes in the popular textbook Flute Learning for Novices in 2009.
In 1995, she received both the Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste and the Diplôme Supérieur de Flûte Ensemble at the Conservatoire National de Région Rueil- Malmaison, and the Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where she studied with Shigenori Kudo and Philippe Pierlot, the first flute solo of the Orchestre National de France. She received her bachelor degree at the Taipei National University of the Arts, where she studied with Man-Nung Fan and Hsiao-Hwa Niu. She has also studied at the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University and Fuxing Elementary School.