Lindan Burns

Viola

Lindan Burns joined the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in 2024. She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Misha Amory and Hsin-Yun Huang under the Jerome L. Greene Fellowship. At Juilliard, she performed as Principal Viola for four years, competed as a finalist in the 2024 Viola Concerto competition and served as an Ear Training fellow for two years, teaching ear training levels I, II and III. She has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Alice Tully Hall, National Sawdust and the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse in Lincoln Center.

An avid chamber musician, Burns has participated in numerous festivals including the Young Artist's Program National Arts Centre in Ottawa, the Castleman Quartet program, the Perlman Music program, the Next Festival of Emerging Artists, the Yellow Barn Young Artist's program, the Taos School of Music, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and HIMA USA.

Passionate about interdisciplinary arts, Burns enjoyed collaborations with innovative artists including Juilliard Creative Associate Nadia Sirota, Mike Block and Preeti Vasudevan of the Silkroad Ensemble, Ted Sperling, Ranjana Ghatak and composers Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Libby Larsen, Juhi Bansal and Aidan Gold, from whom she commissioned and premiered a work for viola and movement. In 2023, she was invited to appear as the Video Performing Artists for "The New Series: Terry Riley's in C", a multi-media concert featuring students from Juilliard NYC and Tianjin, and most recently, performed Tania Leon's "Ritmicas" for Mrs. Leon in the Juilliard 2024 commencement ceremony.

Outside of music, Burns enjoys reading, rock climbing, ballroom dancing, hiking and horseback riding.