Yuxuan Lin, composition (Shenzhen, China) is currently a second-year composition major at The Juilliard School where she studies with Melinda Wagner. She began playing the piano at age six and later studied the guitar as well as the Chinese traditional instruments erhu and hulusi. She began her composition studies with Reiko Füting at the age of seventeen, following in the footsteps of her grandfather, a self-taught composer focusing on Chinese folk music. Yuxuan’s music has been performed internationally in Tokyo, “Moments in This Time” Benefit Concert for COVID-19 Musicians Relief, at La Schola Cantorum in Paris where she attended the EAMA summer institute in 2022, as well as at The Juilliard School. She is interested in the possibilities of combining visual art and music and seeks any opportunity to collaborate between art forms.