Ellie Lin

Ellie Lin is the Artistic Director of the Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus (DSCC), Artistic Director/Conductor of the Great Land Choral Society and the Echo Singers, and a faculty member at Texas Music Conservatory.

At the DSCC, Lin provides artistic and administrative leadership and conducts its choirs in concerts, community appearances, tours, and performances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She has prepared DSCC singers for performances of major symphonic works, including Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and Orff’s Carmina Burana, providing young musicians with the opportunity to perform alongside professional orchestras in some of the world’s most demanding choral repertoire.

An accomplished conductor and educator, Lin’s choirs have toured extensively throughout the United States and internationally in Austria, Germany, Italy, China, Taiwan, Argentina, and Canada. They have performed in prestigious venues including the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. Since 1991, Lin has served the renowned Texas Boys Choir in a variety of roles, including Interim Artistic Director, Associate Artistic Director, Conductor, Pianist, and Algebra teacher. With the Texas Boys Choir, she has performed before U.S. Presidents and appeared in recordings, on national radio, and on television. As Associate Artistic Director and Pianist, she appeared with the choir at the American Choral Directors Association National Conferences in 2013 and 2017.

In 2017, Lin was nominated on the preliminary ballot for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards for Producer of the Year, Classical. The Texas Boys Choir’s 70th Anniversary CD was also considered for Album of the Year and Best Choral Performance.

Lin’s distinguished career includes leadership positions with numerous choirs and schools throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth area and beyond. She has served as High School Choir Director at High Point Academy, Conductor of Pinnacle Choristers, Director of the Southwest Christian School High School Choir, Artistic Director/Conductor of Good Earth Singers, Choir Director at Arlington Chinese Church, and Piano Instructor at the University of Charleston in West Virginia.

Born in Taiwan and raised in Pleasantville, New York, Lin studied choral conducting with the renowned Donald Neuen at the Eastman School of Music, where she received both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music Education and Choral Conducting, with a concentration in piano.

In addition to conducting, Lin is active as a piano teacher, collaborative pianist, and choral clinician, and is a certified Chinese interpreter and translator. She is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Choral Directors Association, and National Music Teachers Association.