Shin-Ying Lin was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. At age 6 received her first piano lesson and two years later, began her flute studies. During the high school years in Taiwan, she won several national prizes and performed the Reinecke Concerto with the Youth Kaohsiungcity orchestra. Since 2002, sheattended the“Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg im Breisgau’’, Germany, Diplom„Künstleriche Ausbildung“(artist performance) in flute with Prof. Robert Aitken and Prof. Felix Renggli. Sheplays regularly in the ,,New Music Institute Freiburg“ and several German orchestras.

She also performed concerts with organ, piano and harp in Germany and France. Attended masterclass with Robert Aitken, Pirre-Yves Artaud, William Bennett, Susan Milan, Gerard Noak, Aurele Nicolet,the Stockhausen course with Kathinka Pasveer, the Academy and Festival Musicalta in Rouffach, France, and participated the concert of Slovakia Chamber orchestra under the director of Philippe Bernold. In 2006 she gave a successful final recital and received the artist diploma with honours. Since April 2007 she began her further study in a soloist program “Konzertexamen” with Prof. Hans-Udo Heinzmann in “Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg”.
In May 2008 she was a finalist of the ’’International Hülsta Woodwinds Competition’’ in Germany. In 2009 she won the Elise-Meyer Prize and 2010 the Hermann-Melina Ebel Scholarship. She is one of few student selected to play in the contemporary ensemble and academy “OPUS XXI” and performed concerts in Villeneuve lez Avigno, Leon, Strasbourg and Hamburg. In 2010 she participated the NFA (National Flute Association 2010, USA) and performed in Anaheim, California. From January 2009, she had an Internship in Philharmoniker Hamburg/ Hamburg State Opera as flutist and solo-piccolist, since then also temporary substituted in several orchestras in Hamburg, Flensburg and Kiel. She is a member of female artist society GEDOK and can be seen in numerous contemporary music and theater performance such as Kunst am Kai, opera stabile, Kampnagel, eigenarten Festival. After successful solo recital and concerto performance as soloist with Hamburg Symphony Orchestrain 2011, she received her Konzertexamen’ with honours. In recent seasons she plays in the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra, Theater Kiel, Hannover State Opera, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and Hamburg State Opera as flutist and piccolist.