Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, and Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Wuxi Symphony Orchestra, He is a Doctoral Supervisor, He holds professorships at several institutions: Distinguished Professor of Conducting at the China Conservatory of Music, Visiting Professor of Conducting at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Adjunct Professor of Conducting at the School of Music of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), and Visiting Professor of Conducting at the Tianjin Conservatory of Music.

LIN Daye studied successively under Professor XU Xin of the Central Conservatory of Music, Professor ZHANG Guoyong of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and Professor Christian EHWALD at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, where he received the German Konzertexamen, the highest performing degree. From 2009 he served as Resident Conductor of the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, and from 2010 to 2015 as Principal Conductor of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, leading the orchestra on multiple tours at home and abroad.

In 2012, he won first prize at the Sixth International Georg Solti Conducting Competition in Frankfurt. That same year, he was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award for Excellent Musician of Guangdong Province by the Guangdong Musicians Association. In 2020 and 2021, he received the He Luting Artistic Achievement Award from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and was selected for the 2020 Young Artistic Creative Talent Funding Program of the China National Arts Fund. In 2023, he was named one of Shenzhen’s Top Ten Outstanding Young People.

LIN returned to teach at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2015. Appointed Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra in 2016, he has since led the orchestra on annual international tours to Germany, the United States, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, and Japan, appearing at festivals such as the Ljubljana Festival, the International Radio Festival of Romania, the Emilia Romagna Festival, the Merano Festival, the Donizetti Festival, the Città di Castello International Music Festival, and the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival.

In March 2023, he took on the additional role of Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Wuxi Symphony Orchestra, overseeing its founding and leading its debut concert on New Year’s Day 2024. That same year, he led the Wuxi Symphony Orchestra’s chamber ensemble on cultural exchange tours to the United Kingdom and Japan, and also conducted the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra on a widely praised tour of the UK. In March 2025, he conducted the opening concert of the Trans-Siberian Art Festival in Russia. In April 2025, he served on the jury of the inaugural Classical Violin Olympia International Competition.