Biography

Shinya Lin is a performer, composer, and improviser based in New York. His work explores the relationship between music, everyday life, and human connection. He is also a co-founder of Chaospace, a nonprofit organization that supports and presents Asian artists in New York City, creating opportunities for collaboration and cultural exchange.

His current work explores life-informed, gestural, and ubiquitous music, often drawing from the sounds, movements, and experiences of everyday life and the natural world. His music moves across new music, jazz, improvisation, and electroacoustic music. As a pianist, he works extensively with prepared piano and electronics, with influences ranging from John Cage and Cecil Taylor to the sounds of ordinary life.

At the center of Shinya’s practice is the idea of “being present.” For him, music is not separate from everyday life, but a way of paying attention to it. Through improvisation and composition, he looks for moments of spontaneity, connection, and discovery, and for ways music can bring people together.

Shinya graduated from Berklee College of Music and holds a Master of Music from The New School’s Performer-Composer program, where he currently serves as part-time faculty. He continues to work across New York’s music and arts communities, collaborating with artists from different backgrounds and exploring new ways of making and experiencing contemporary music.