Beloved by Jazz Campers for his ability to get everyone fired up about jazz improvisation, faculty advisor Victor Lin has been on the faculty of the Stanford Jazz Workshop for the past 11 years, taught at the Mark O’Connor Fiddle Camp for three years, and currently directs the jazz program at The Calhoun School, a private progressive education school on the upper west side of Manhattan. A jazz pianist and violinist, he has an undergraduate degree in music from the University of Washington and a masters degree in jazz studies from Rutgers University, where he was a student of Kenny Barron. He is currently finishing his doctorate in music education at Columbia University Teachers College, where he teaches jazz piano and jazz ensembles.