Cho-liang Lin or as he is affectionately known as Jimmy, has performed as soloist with virtually every major orchestra in the world for over 27 years. He has recorded 20 albums which have won Gramophone Record Of The Year and numerous Grammy nominations. He is on the faculty of The Juilliard School of Music, appointed professor at Rice University, he is the past music director of La Jolla SummerFest and music director of the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival and Taipei Music Academy and Festival. He has performed to an indoor audience of 53,000, and played in both Petco Park in front of a Padres Cardinals game, as well as Yankee stadium and is the soloist on a HellBoy 2 track, a favourite film of mine. Much to my continuing dismay Jimmy is a huge Yankee fan. He performs on the 1715 Stradivari named “Titian” and let’ start with a few moments of Jimmy as a 15 year old student in a Itzack Perlman masterclass.