Samuel Lin is a graduate of the National Taiwan Academy of Arts, majoring in vocal. He received his Master degree of Music Arts in Conducting conferred by Roger Wagner Center of Choral Studies at California State University in Los Angeles.  In addition to studying choral conducting with Dr. William Belan and the esteemed Dr. Roger Wagner, he also studied under Dr. Robert Fowells, Dr. Donald Neuen and Dr. Paul Salamunovich.

Under Mr. Lin’s leadership, the youth choir participated in the International Youth Music Festival in Vienna, Austria in 1988.  In 1992, he led the demo-singing group representing the U. S. West region in the Hawaii seminar organized by the American Choral Musician Association.  In his direction, the Los Angeles Chinese Chorale accomplished the Taiwan concert tour and performed at the famed Taipei National Theatre; participated in the International Choral Festival in Innsbruck, Austria in 2001, and received the silver medal awarded by the International Folksong Choral Competition in Barcelona, Spain in September 2006.

In the past 30 years, Mr. Lin has dedicated himself to arranging music, educating and conducting choral groups.  He founded the LACA Music Foundation in 1994 and serves as the president of the board.  He is the conductor of the East Valley Evangelical Formosan Church Choir, Los Angeles Chinese Chorale, Los Angeles Chinese Christian Chorale, Southern California Senior Chorus, San Gabriel Valley Children’s Chorus, and East Valley Children’s Chorus.

Mr. Lin has been invited as the guest professor by the Singapore Theological Seminary, as the youth choir director in the Evangelical Alliance Mission Conference at Sydney, Australia, and as the guest conductor for the local choruses in San Francisco, Malaysia, etc…  He is frequently invited as the choral clinician and competition jury by both the children and adult choirs.