Caden Lin

Caden Lin grew up in Los Angeles, California, and started learning piano at the age of 6. Currently, he is a Junior at Venice Senior High and he studies with Fabio Bidini, HyeJin Kim, and Rodolfo Leone at Colburn Music Academy. He has won first prize in the 2024 Marine Band Concerto Competition in Washington D.C, the 2023 Colburn Academy Concerto Competition, the 2020 Steinway Virtual Piano Competition (Southern California), the Aloha International Piano Competition in Honolulu, Oahu in 2018, and was awarded in Southwestern Youth Music Festival, Alice Kitchen Memorial Scholarship Competition as well as Los Angeles International Piano Competition in 2016. He was a finalist in broadcast station NPR’s “From the Top” in 2020 and 2021 for his solo piano as well as piano duo performances. Caden was invited to the 2023 Hilton Head International Junior Piano Competition, the 2023 and 2025 (Semifinalist) Aarhus International Piano Competition in Denmark, and the 2025 Palm Springs International Piano Competition.

Also, an active chamber musician, Caden and his piano trio performed in Thacher School, Ojai for a charitable Kronberg Academy project of the “Quartet of Hope” under the auspices of the ROME foundation Gottingen- Germany. They also received the Horszowski Trio Prize in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition He has participated in masterclasses with Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Michael Roll, and Jerome Rose. Caden has performed in Weill, Carnegie Hall in New York, Orvis Auditorium in the University of Hawaii and he was a soloist in Zipper Hall, Los Angeles performing the Mozart Triple Concerto with Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Academy Virtuosi Orchestra at 2022 Colburn Gala Concert. He performed with the United States President’s Own Marine Chamber Orchestra in Alexandria, Virginia in April 2024. Along with music, Caden enjoys spending time with his friends and exploring nature in the Californian National Parks.