Wilbur Lin
Associate Conductor
Wilbur Lin was named Assistant Conductor of the Colorado Symphony and Music Director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra in June 2023 and promoted to Associate Conductor in 2024. Lin’s career has taken him to symphony halls and opera theaters across the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Taiwan.
Known for his creative programming and inviting stage presence, Taiwanese-American conductor Wilbur Lin’s career has taken him to symphony halls and opera theaters across the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Taiwan. Lin is currently the music director of the Missouri Symphony and associate conductor of the Colorado Symphony.
The 2025/26 season marks a series of milestones for Lin, with debuts at Symphony Nova Scotia, the Louisiana Philharmonic, and his first guest conducting appearance with the Cincinnati Pops, alongside continued performances with the Missouri and Colorado symphonies. Recent seasons have featured engagements with the Rochester Philharmonic and the symphonies of Elgin, Acadiana, and Juneau, in addition to frequent return invitations from the Taipei Symphony, Ann Arbor Symphony, and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra.
A equally strong advocate for new music and neglected composers of the past, especially American and British women composers, Lin is closely associated with the research and performance of works by Alice Mary Smith and Amy Beach. In his role as the associate conductor of the Colorado Symphony, Lin also serves as the music director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, with whom he released a recording of Marion Bauer’s “American Youth” Piano Concerto and a premiere digital single of Alice Mary Smith’s The Masque of Pandora Oveture. Further recent activities include the release of a new studio recording with pianist Eric Zuber and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the creation of an interactive multimedia education concert series for the Taipei Symphony, and conducting and covering the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops where he finished his tenure as assistant conductor in 2022.
A graduate of Riccardo Muti‘s Italian Opera Academy, Lin’s operatic endeavors include conducting Verdi’s Macbeth at Teatro Alighieri, Le nozze di Figaro and L’elisir d’amore with the Missouri Symphony, Die Zauberflöte and Barber of Seville with the Winter Harbor Music Festival, Menotti’s The Medium and Amelia Goes to the Ball as the conductor of Northern Illinois University, and has coached and performed as a pianist with the Indianapolis Opera, Indiana University Opera Theater, Reimagining Opera for Kids, and the Cincinnati Ballet. In 2022, Lin led a new workshop of Robeson by Scott Davenport Richards at the Cincinnati Opera.