Yi-Ju Lin is currently a flutist with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. She graduated from the Department of Music at Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan). She holds a Master’s degree in Flute Performance from the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar (Germany) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Flute Performance from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Austria). She is presently pursuing the Konzertexamen, the highest performance diploma, at the Folkwang University of the Arts (Germany) in Essen.

Her principal teachers include Shih-Fang Wu, Huei-Jin Liu, Prof. Wally Hase, and Prof. Anne-Catherine Heinzmann. During her studies, she was selected as a long-term recipient of the Hsing Tian Kong Foundation’s Talented Arts Program in Taiwan.

She has performed extensively in Germany, France, Austria, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan. She has held positions with the Gürzenich Orchester Köln and the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, and has collaborated with many leading European Orchestras, including the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, SWR Symphonieorchester, Wiener Symphoniker, Camerata Salzburg, Bochumer Symphoniker, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden, and Saarländisches Staatsorchester, as well as the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. She is also a prizewinner of numerous international competitions, including First Prize at the TFF Piccolo Competition in Tampere, Second Prize at the Dutch International Flute Competition, First Prize at the Taiwan Flute Elite Competition.