Pianist Jenny Lin, who will perform the music of Shostakovich, Bach, and Kurtag at LPR on July 20, was featured in a WSJ article on Dmitri Shostakovich’s (1906-1975) 24 Preludes and Fugues and Opus 87 for piano.

Here’s what WSJ had to say:

“Born in Taiwan and raised in Austria, the young pianist Jenny Lin (www.jennylin.net) currently teaches at New York’s 92nd Street Y. Having already recorded CDs of Russian modernist music by such overlooked composers as Arthur-Vincent Lourié (1892-1966) and Serge Bortkiewicz (1910-1949) for the German label Hänssler, Ms. Lin is perfectly situated to understand the Russian pianistic idiom that Shostakovich transfigured with his genius. Moreover, Ms. Lin’s virtuosity, expressed in works by Liszt and Rachmaninov on her own YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/user/jennylinpiano), is fully up to the fearsome challenges set by Shostakovich…“