A native of Taipei, Taiwan, Lin began the study of violin at the age of six. Later he studied with Zvi Zeitlin at the Eastman School of Music. His performances have taken him throughout the United States, Germany, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, England and Taiwan. He is currently the Associate Concertmaster of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Swang has also performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Houston Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He held the concertmaster position with the West Virginia Symphony and the Bear Valley Music Festival, and guest concertmaster with Taipei City Symphony, Atlantic Classical Orchestra, and East Texas Symphony. Swang has performed at Tanglewood, Caramoor, Colorado and Killington Music Festival and Snowbird Institute in the US as well as Goslar music festival in Germany, Vietnam Connection Music Festival and Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra Summer festival in Asia.

Swang’s concerto appearances include Fort Worth Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, Kaohsiung City Symphony (Taiwan), Shanghai Broadcast Symphony, Kunming Symphony (China) and Taipei City Symphony Orchestra, Lake Lewisville Symphony and other regional orchestras. His performances have been on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, and on WRR, KBYU, WVPR and have been televised on Good Morning America and on PBS.

Swang Lin performs on the "Eugenie, ex-Mackenzie" Antonio Stradivari violin (1685), generously on loan to the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association from an anonymous patron.