Wakefield pianist Ian Lin performs with Music on the Hill June 1

Music on the Hill is honored to share its 2026 scholarship winners' performances on June 1 in "Generations" at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 99 Peirce Street, East Greenwich.

Wakefield's Ian Lin, 16, received top honors this year, out of a distinguished field of talented RI musicians ages 13-18. A student in Davidson Academy Online, Ian studies piano with Jonathan Bass at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School.

East Greenwich cellist Alejandro Quintero Cashore, 18, earned the second prize. Alejandro is a senior at Bishop Hendricken High School in Warwick and studies with Megan Koch -- who also performs June 1.

After Ian and Alejandro, June 1's program includes music by Chopin, Telemann, Bellini, Clarke, Villa Lobos, and Popper, for flute, guitar, soprano, and cello trio.

"Generations" begins at 7PM. Students/kids admitted free, $30 for adults at the door with cash/check, or online.

Ian Lin is a 16-year-old pianist, composer, and violinist from Wakefield, Rhode Island. He studies piano with Jonathan Bass (New England Conservatory Preparatory School) and Wei-Yi Yang (Yale). Ian regularly plays recitals for retirement communities, and has played in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Symphony Hall. He was featured in Kingston Chamber Music Festival’s 2024 Young Artist Recital and has been presented by Core Memory Music. Recent honors include being named a 2026 YoungArts Winner with Distinction and a recipient of first-year full scholarship from the Chopin Foundation of the U.S. One of 20 senior contestants at 2026’s Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists, he won 2026’s NFMC Stillman-Kelley/Thelma Byrum Award and Claire Ulrich Whitehurst Award. Ian won Vancouver Piano Sessions’s Concerto Competition and East Carolina Piano Festival Competition. He has appeared as soloist with Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, Long Bay Symphony, and RI Philharmonic Youth Symphony Orchestra. Active in chamber music through NEC Prep’s CHIPS program, Ian was a quarterfinalist in Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. As a violinist, Ian is in Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and was formerly concertmaster of Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and a member of Philadelphia Youth Orchestra. Ian studies at Davidson Academy Online. Besides music, he enjoys tennis and chess.

Alejandro Quintero Cashore is an 18-year-old cellist from East Greenwich, Rhode Island. He is currently a member of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Symphony Orchestra, and has earned principal cellist for the RIMEA (Rhode Island Music Educators Association) and All-State Orchestras in 2023, 2024, 2025, and for the 2026 festival. Highly passionate about community service and social justice, he’s spent over 100 hours volunteering and working at Community Music Works in Providence, Rhode Island, and has served as the president of Bishop Hendricken High School’s affinity group, The Brotherhood, since 2022, where he has organized school wide luncheons attended by 120+ peers of color and launched a Civil Rights Movement Student Immersion Trip, whose inaugural group of 12 students will travel to sites like the Equal Justice Initiative Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama, in February 2026. Summer festivals attended include Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra (NYO2) in 2025, where he toured in Edinburgh, Scotland, and performed at Carnegie Hall, and the Sphinx Performance Academy at Berklee College of Music in Boston and CU Boulder School of Music in 2025 and 2024, respectively. Most recently, he was awarded Bishop Hendricken High School’s Leonard Bernstein Musicianship Award, the Daniel and Dorothy Harrop Scholarship for Excellence in Music, and a gold medal on the Level 4 National Spanish Exam for a score above the 95th percentile. Alejandro plans to double major in Cello Performance and Economics at Yale University.