Assistant professor of music Joseph Lin will join the Juilliard String Quartet as first violinist, and the violin faculty at the Juilliard School of Music beginning in fall 2011.

Lin, 32, is currently on leave to study Chinese music in Asia. He will return for the spring semester at Cornell before joining the other members of the Juilliard School's resident quartet of 64 years.

Lin is an alumnus of the Juilliard School Pre-College and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2000. In 2004 he studied Chinese music in Beijing as a Fulbright scholar. A founding member of the Formosa Quartet and an award-winning violinist, he came to Cornell in 2007 and has maintained an international performing schedule as a solo and chamber musician.

His achievements at Cornell include the Chinese Musicians Residency inaugurated in April 2009 and "Transcending Boundaries," a yearlong project with student composers to study Bach's violin sonatas and partitas and to create new music inspired by Bach, culminating in a series of four concerts in April 2010.