January Concert with Collin Jinks, Piano
Otto Nicolai | The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K. 414
Jean Sibelius | Pan and Echo
Cesar Franck | Symphony in D Minor
Collin Jinks is an award-winning pianist whose performing career spans across the United States and abroad. Jinks holds a Bachelor of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory and a Master of Music from the Bienen School at Northwestern University. His primary teachers include Jo Anne Link, Jack Winerock, Steven Spooner, Yoshikazu Nagai, and James Giles. At Northwestern, Jinks was awarded first prize in the 2024 Pauline Lindsey Endowed Scholarship Competition and received the 2025 Thaviu-Isaak Endowed Prize in Piano, Northwestern’s highest distinction in piano performance. His graduate work was generously supported by the Eckstein Fund.
Jinks is a first-prize winner of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) National Piano Competition and a Chopin Prize Recipient from the Chopin Foundation of the United States. He holds top prizes from the Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford, the International Steinway Concerto Competition at the Colburn School, and the Schubert Club Competition.
He has appeared in faculty recital at the Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival in Maiori, Italy, and his performances have been aired on Classical Minnesota Public Radio. As a concerto soloist, Jinks has appeared with the Mississippi Valley Orchestra, Minnetonka Symphony, Minnehaha Repertory Orchestra, and the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra.
A devoted educator whose teaching spans nearly a decade, Jinks maintains a broad pedagogical scope, providing an approach equally adept in guiding young beginners as it is in mentoring the most gifted students toward the highest levels of artistic preparation. At Northwestern University, Jinks instructed undergraduate pianists through the Bienen School’s advanced non-major piano program. His private students have earned placement in competitive summer sessions, including the Interlochen Center for the Arts Advanced Piano Program.