Queensland Music Award winner Ray Lin is a versatile composer, arranger, conductor and orchestrator specialising in music for concert hall and screen. His music has been performed internationally in the US and China; and featured through a range of prestigious local, state and national venues and platforms in Australia, including QPAC, Brisbane City Hall, ABC ME, 4MBS Classic FM, Old Museum Concert Hall, QLD-GOMA and more. Ray’s music has been performed by the Queensland Pops Orchestra, Topology, Queensland Conservatorium Symphony and Wind orchestra, members from the Ba Ban Chinese Music Society of New York, Orchestral Naturalis (QCGU) and others.

As a composer and arranger, Ray has received many outstanding awards for his work. Ray won the Contemporary Classical Song of the Year prize at the 2020 Queensland Music Awards and received a 2022 David Blumberg Award from the American Society of Music Arrangers and composers (ASMAC). Ray reached semi-final in the 2020 Walter Hussey Composition Competition (UK) and received second place in the 2021 National Youth Arranging Competition hosted by Music Arrangers’ Guild Australia. Recently Ray was commissioned by the ABC to write and record a new work featuring both Western and Chinese instruments in 2023 as part of the ABC composer commission project.

Ray’s diverse compositions have been featured in a variety of concerts and events, the most notables including premiering his chamber piano concerto “Seasons of the Spring Rain” in New York featuring musicians from the Bard Conservatory, premiering his orchestral tribute “Waltz No.007” at the 2021 Brisbane Festival Film- Harmonic concert, premiered “The Royal Fanfare” performed by the Queensland Pops Orchestra, premiered two pieces in the “One World, One Family” 24-hour virtual concert hosted and broadcasted by Chinese CCTV, etc.

Ray holds a Bachelor of Music (in composition) with distinction from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, and he was a recipient of the Alan Lane Composition Award. Ray is currently undertaking the Master of Arts Screen: Music course at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.