Michelle Lin

Analyzing Tonal Music – Fall 2025 Analyzing Popular Music After 2000 – Spring 2026

Teaching Fellow at Harvard University – Department of Music (2025-09 – Present)

• Analyzing Tonal Music – Fall 2025
• Analyzing Popular Music After 2000 – Spring 2026

Piano and Theory Instructor at Royal Conservatory of Music (2012-01 – Present)

• Instructed adults and students ages 5-18, ranging from beginners to RCM Grade 10
• Taught co-requisite music theory courses, including Rudiments and Harmony
• Organized annual recitals and community outreach concerts for students to gain performance experience

Young Artists Program Coordinator at Vancouver Piano Sessions (2023-01 – 2024-12)

• Developed and taught a full-time, two week music history and theory curriculum for young pianists ages 8-12 in August that incorporated musicianship, play, and creativity
• Taught masterclasses and coached piano duets and trios to these same students

Teaching Assistant at University of Texas at Austin – Butler School of Music (2022-01 – 2023-05)

• Aural Skills IV – Spring 2022
• Music Theory I – Fall 2022
• Music Theory II – Spring 2023

Applied Piano Instructor at University of Texas at Austin – Butler School of Music (2020-01 – 2022-12)

• Conducted weekly lessons for non-music major undergraduate students taking Applied Piano (PIA 201) and prepared them for midterms and recitals every semester
• Taught elementary school-aged children piano and music theory through the Piano Project program

Music Theory Coordinator at Harvard University Department of Music (2023-01 – Present)

• Organized monthly meetings to facilitate conference presentations, guest speaker colloquia, and academic discussions among the music theory faculty and students

Student Ambassador at University of Toronto – Faculty of Music (2017-01 – 2020-12)

• Represented the Faculty of Music positively when interacting with donors, guest artists, and prospective students at concerts, scholarship receptions, and events

Independent Researcher at Harvard University and University of Texas at Austin (2022-01 – Present)

• Conducted independent and archival research on Chinese art songs from the Republican Era (1911-1949), examining its cultural role in state building and reclamation of identity
• Worked as Research Assistant for Prof. Jie Li, compiling sources and providing written musicum analysis for Chinese Song Cultures (Spring 2027)

Music Theory Research Assistant at University of Toronto – Faculty of Music (2020-01 – 2021-05)

• Worked with Dr. Daphne Tan and Dr. Jenine Brown to evaluate the perceptual attraction among different pre-dominant chords to dominant chords, using Mozart's 18 Piano Sonatas as the musical corpus and created a novel dataset

Music Cognition Research Assistant at University of British Columbia – School of Music (2021-01 – 2021-12)

• Worked with Dr. Leigh VanHandel to evaluate the correlation between musical factors and Heart Rate Variability in performers for UBC Opera Productions (Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims, Dove's Mansfield Park, and Weinberg's Passengers)
• Assessed, coded, and compiled several musical parameters including melodic range, meter, and tempo

Master of Arts in Music Theory – Harvard University (2023-09 – 2026-05)

Master of Music in Music Theory – University of Texas at Austin (2020-09 – 2023-05)

Master of Music in Piano Performance – University of Texas at Austin (2020-09 – 2022-05)

Bachelor of Music in Performance in Performance – University of Toronto (2016-09 – 2020-05)