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Since accepting a faculty position at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan, Thomas Linde has been active as a piano teacher, soloist, performer with orchestra, chamber musician and accompanist. He has performed extensively in Taiwan, the United States China, Canada and Malaysia. In 1987, he was invited by the United States Information Service to perform a recital of twentieth-century American pieces in Japan. He has since returned to Japan seven times to perform in Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Utsonomiya and many other cities. Also active as a teacher, he has been a visiting professor at Eastern Michigan University, has conducted masterclasses in Taiwan, China, the United States, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, and has served on the faculties of the Prague International Piano Masterclasses, the CCM Prague International Piano
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Institute and the Amalfi Piano Festival.
Professor Linde has taught students who have won first prize in both international and all-Taiwan competitions. Some of his former students have continued their studies at such schools as Eastman, Julliard, Indiana University and the Berlin Hochschule. Several of his former students now hold faculty positions at established universities in Taiwan and the United States. Professor Linde has lectured extensively on topics related to both keyboard literature and piano pedagogy. He has presented numerous lectures on developing effective practice methods both in Europe and in Asia. He has written papers on a wide variety of topics that have been published for international music conferences and in periodicals such as Clavier Companion. He is also author of the book, The Stylus Phantasticus in the Keyboard Works of J. S. Bach.
Professor Linde holds a doctorate in piano performance from Indiana University at Bloomington where he graduated with distinction. He earned his undergraduate degree at Baldwin-Wallace College and later became a recipient of the Conservatory Alumni Achievement Award. His piano teachers include Stephen Kovacevich, Robert Mayerovitch, Louis Nagel, Alain Planes, Karen Shaw and Zadel Skolovsky. He studied chamber music with Josef Gingold and James Buswell and vocal accompaniment with Eugene Bossart.
From 1994 to 2011, Professor Linde served as director of the Tunghai International Music Festival and has since coordinated numerous international music conferences at Tunghai. A full professor of music, Mr. Linde teaches both applied piano and piano literature, and is currently serving his second three-year term as chairman of the music department.
Professor Linde has taught students who have won first prize in both international and all-Taiwan competitions. Some of his former students have continued their studies at such schools as Eastman, Julliard, Indiana University and the Berlin Hochschule. Several of his former students now hold faculty positions at established universities in Taiwan and the United States. Professor Linde has lectured extensively on topics related to both keyboard literature and piano pedagogy. He has presented numerous lectures on developing effective practice methods both in Europe and in Asia. He has written papers on a wide variety of topics that have been published for international music conferences and in periodicals such as Clavier Companion. He is also author of the book, The Stylus Phantasticus in the Keyboard Works of J. S. Bach.
Professor Linde holds a doctorate in piano performance from Indiana University at Bloomington where he graduated with distinction. He earned his undergraduate degree at Baldwin-Wallace College and later became a recipient of the Conservatory Alumni Achievement Award. His piano teachers include Stephen Kovacevich, Robert Mayerovitch, Louis Nagel, Alain Planes, Karen Shaw and Zadel Skolovsky. He studied chamber music with Josef Gingold and James Buswell and vocal accompaniment with Eugene Bossart.
From 1994 to 2011, Professor Linde served as director of the Tunghai International Music Festival and has since coordinated numerous international music conferences at Tunghai. A full professor of music, Mr. Linde teaches both applied piano and piano literature, and is currently serving his second three-year term as chairman of the music department.