An-Lin Bardin
Described as “stunning,” by the New York Times, cellist An-Lin Bardin currently teaches cello and chamber music at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the cellist for the Bardin-Niskala Duo, an acclaimed cello-piano duo that seeks to encourage empathy and compassion in society by exploring identity through the lens of music. Additionally, she co-directs the Winterhaven Chamber Music Retreat, a chamber music festival for amateur adult string and piano players in NH.
Bardin is a laureate of several prestigious international quartet competitions, including the Paolo Borciani Quartet Competition in Reggio Emilia, Italy, the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition, Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition, and the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competitions in the United States, from her time as the cellist for the Vinca Quartet. She has performed extensively throughout Europe and the US, including Carnegie’s Perlman and Weill Halls, Aspen, and Vilar Performing Arts Center. Bardin’s performances have been broadcast on Deutschlandradio and WNYC.
She has served as the Artist-in-Residence for the Perlman Music Program in Sarasota, Florida, and was a recipient of a DAAD scholarship (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), a fellowship which enabled her to study with the Vogler String Quartet in Stuttgart, Germany. Bardin also studied extensively with Gunter Pichler and Valentin Erben of the Alban Berg Quartet, Walter Levine of the LaSalle Quartet under the auspices of the ProQuartet Odyssée Program in Paris, France. Through the Carnegie Hall Chamber Music Workshops, she has worked with the Emerson String Quartet, and she was graduate assistant to the Takacs Quartet at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
A strong proponent of music education, Bardin is a founding member of Music Haven, an intensive mentorship program serving youth in New Haven, Connecticut. Raised in California by two nuclear physicists, Bardin began her cello studies at the age of eight with Irene Sharp. She holds a B.S. from Yale University in Geology and Geophysics, and an M.M. from the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Aldo Parisot and was a member of the Grammy-Award-winning Yale Cellos.