PROVOCATIVE THOUGHTS: 
The late Patric Standford may have written these short pieces deliberately to provoke our feedback. If so, his success is reflected in the rich range of readers' comments appearing at the foot of most of the pages.
Amber Lin
Amber Lin was born in 2008 and started studying piano when she was five years old. She has been under the tutelage of Judy Huang since 2017. Amber has taken masterclasses with pianists, such as Jura Margulis, Vitalli Gavrouc and Craig Richey. She has played piano five times in New York's Carnegie Hall. Amber has won first prizes for multiple international competitions, including the Glory International Music Competition, the American Fine Arts Festival and the American Association for Development of the Gifted and Talented, where she was invited to record for the 'Album Young Gifted Performers 2024'. Amber was selected to perform in the Winners' Concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall, the Solitär Mozarteum (Salzburg) and Kleine Zaal, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam).
Articles by Amber Lin
Amber Lin and Jeffrey Neil investigate Christine Moore Vassallo's journey through Spanish song