Described by Time Out New York as “Incisive, industrious, and creatively restless…” Caroline Chin has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in concert halls including the John F. Kennedy Center, the White House during their Christmas Festivities, New York’s Carnegie and Weill Halls, and the Concertgebeau in Amsterdam. She gave her solo debut at age 12 and has since performed with several orchestras throughout the United States.

An avid chamber musician, Chin was a member the Hudson Piano Trio and Ensemble Epomeo. She has collaborated with members of the Takacs Quartet, Vermeer Quartet, the Juilliard Quartet as well as with artists Gary Hoffman, Colin Carr, Nobuko Imai, Charles Neidich, and Piers Lane. She has been an invited guest artist at the Consonances Festival in France, Schiermonnikoog Chamber Music Festival in Holland, the 2 Rivers Chamber Music Festival in the UK, the Scotia Festival in Canada, and the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival in Massachusetts. 

A promoter of new music, she has performed works of composers Jennifer Higdon, Samuel Adler, Aaron J. Kernis, Augusta Read Thomas, Jesse Montgomery, Shulamit Ran, and a world premiere of Triple Concerto: Da Camara  by Pulitzer Prize winning composer, George Walker. Recordings include the world premiere Elliott Carter’s Tre Duetti for Violin and Cello on Centaur Records as well as recordings on Albany, Avie, Somm, and New World Records.

Chin has toured the US and Japan with tap dancer Savion Glover and performed and recorded as leader of SONYC and concertmaster of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. As the Artistic Director of Musica Reginae from 2007-2011, she worked to bring high quality music performances to the ethnically diverse communities of Queens.

Chin is Associate Professor of Violin at  Bowling Green State University's College of Musical Arts  and gives violin masterclasses at music institutions throughout the United States. She received her degrees from Indiana University’s School of Music, the Juilliard School, and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her principle mentors were Miriam Fried, Robert Mann, Shmuel Ashkenasi, and Rolf Schulte.