About

Ray Lin is an award-winning composer, conductor, arranger, and orchestrator for concert hall and screen. His works have been performed/broadcasted internationally in the USA, UK, China, New Zealand, Australia and has written for the Queensland Pops Orchestra, Camerata – QLD’s Chamber Orchestra, Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Central Coast, Topology, Queensland Conservatorium Symphony and Wind orchestras, members from Ba Ban Chinese Music Society of New York, renowned guitarist Karin Schaupp (AUS), pipa virtuosos Zhou Yi (USA), Lulu Liu (Aus), Cheng Yu (UK) among others. Ray’s compositions and arrangements has also been featured in festivals including VIVID Sydney, BrisAsia Festival, Brisbane Festival, Sydney Film Festival; and through a range of prestigious local, state and national venues and platforms in Australia, including ABC Classic, ABC ME, SBS, QPAC, Brisbane City Hall, 4MBS Classic FM, Sydney State Theatre, Old Museum Concert Hall, and more.

Ray has received many outstanding awards for his works, including winning the Contemporary Classical Song of the Year prize at the 2020 Queensland Music Awards and second place in the 2021 National Youth Arranging Competition hosted by Music Arrangers’ Guild Australia. He was awarded a David Blumberg Award from the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers in 2022, an Honorable Mention Award (Top 5) in Queensland Music Festival’s 2018 “Score-IT(Plus)” film scoring competition and reached the semi-final in the 2020 Walter Hussey Composition Competition (UK). 

Recent compositional highlights include being Willoughby Symphony Orchestra’s 2024 Young Composer of the year, Camerata-Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra’s emerging composer-in-residence for 2023, receiving a commission from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC, 2022), premiering a chamber work for an East-west cross-cultural ensemble in New York in 2022, co-composed the soundtracks for the 2021 “European Masterpieces” exhibition sound installation project in Queensland Gallery of Modern Arts (exhibition in collaboration with Metropolitan Museum of New York); premiering an orchestral tribute “Waltz No.007” at the Film-Harmonic concert (as part of Brisbane Festival 2021); premiered “The Royal Fanfare” performed by the Queensland Pops Orchestra at the QPAC Concert Hall, premiered two pieces in the 2020 “One World, One Family” 24-hour virtual concert hosted and broadcasted by Chinese CCTV, etc.

Ray is also an active composer, arranger and orchestrator for commercial concerts and media projects, he has arranged/orchestrated for the BrisAsia Festival “Rare Voices” concert (2023), George Ellis Orchestra Beatles tribute show (2023), Brisbane Festival FilmHarmonic” concert (2021-2023), “Know It Alls” TV show (ABC ME), 2019 IAUTV Spring Festival Gala 2018 Teressa Teng tribute concert supporting Lord Mayor’s Trust, 2017 Brisbane Chinese Festival Gala show (City Hall) and many more. His film work has been screened at festivals including Sydney Film Festival, Sydney Independent Film Festival, Melbourne Fashion Film Festival, FlickerFest and more.

Ray holds a Bachelor of Music (in composition) with distinction from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, and he was a recipient of the Sir Samuel Griffith Scholarship and Alan Lane Award for Composition. Ray has also been selected to participate in the Juilliard School of Music 2023 Summer Extension Programs for Composition and Conducting. Ray is a graduate of the Masters of Arts Screen: Music course at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and currently further studies at the Royal College of Music in London.

As a multi-instrumentalist, Ray had performed in the USA, Australia and China; in a variety of live concerts, musical pit orchestras, and recording sessions as a guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist.