Shi Lin is a young mezzo-soprano, opera singer, and teacher in the Central Conservatory of Music's Vocal and Opera Department. She graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music's attached middle school and was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music in the same year. She was admitted to the University of Music and Drama of Munich on scholarship. In 2013, she graduated with a double master's degree in Opera Performance and Concert Singing, then enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music in the U.S. and signed as a young soloist of Semper Opera in Dresden and Zurich Opera in Switzerland. Shi was awarded the Gold Prize of the 13th China Music Golden Bell Award, the second prize in the Wenhua Award of the 8th National Vocal Competition of the Ministry of Culture of China, and the first prize in the 4th International Vocal Competition of Gut Immling, Germany.

She has performed at the SemperOper in Dresden, Opera House in Hannover, the Niedersachsen Music Festival, the Champs-Elysees Theater in Paris, the Aix-en-Provence International Music Festival in France, Theater Bern in Switzerland, the Chautauqua International Music Festival, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Warsaw, the National Center for the Performing Arts in China, and more. Lin performed with the world-renowned conductors Christian Thielemann, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Corrado Rovaris, Andreas Spering, Robin Ticciati, Fabio Luisi, Marco Armiliato, and Yu Feng. She has sung in more than 30 classic operas including Madame Butterfly, Cosi fan tutte, La Finta Giardiniera, Le Nozze di Figaro, Werther, Alcina, La Cenerentola, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Rigoletto. She performed in the German drama Exile under Protection and the original English musical The Enchanted Pig. She also performed with the National Theatre and Mariinsky Theatre in Lucia di Lammermoor and in China-tour performances of Dream of the Red Chamber by the San Francisco Opera. She has sung Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Mahler's Second and Third Symphonies, and Brahms' Alto Rhapsody. Since 2018 she has been teaching at the Vocal Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, China.