Lin Daye, music director and principal conductor of Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, special guest conductor of China National Symphony Orchestra, associate director of Composition & Conducting department at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, adjunct professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Conservatory of Music, key member of First-Class Orchestra Talent Cultivation and Practical of Shanghai Innovation Team, board member of Chinese Musicians Association and member of Shanghai Youth Association. Besides, he has received the He Luting Art Achievement Award for year 2020 and 2022, China National Arts Fund Youth Performing Artist 2020 and won the 6th International Conductors' Competition Sir Georg Solti in 2012.

He has successively studied under Prof. Xu Xin, a conductor educator from the Central Conservatory of Music, Prof. Zhang Guoyong from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and Prof. Christian Ehwald of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, Germany, and obtained the Konzertexam certificate.

In 2009, Lin Daye was the resident conductor of Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra. Between 2009 to 2015, he was appointed as permanent conductor of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra (GSO) and made several concert tours with the GSO in homeland and overseas. In 2012, he won the first prize at the 6th Sir Georg Solti International Conductors Competition which held in Frankfurt, Germany and being the first Chinese recipient of this competition. Same year, he has awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award by Guangdong Musicians Association.

In September 2015, Lin Daye has returned to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and currently is the associate director of Composition & Conducting department.

In May 2016, Lin Daye has officially appointed as music director and principal conductor of Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra (SZSO).

Up to now, Lin Daye has led the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra to tour around China and countries such as the Germany, United States, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Canada, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary and other countries. He has conducted SZSO at the Ljubljana Festival, Radiro - International Radio Orchestras Festival, Emilia Romagna Festival, Merano Festival, Donizetti Festival, Festival delle Nazioni, Shanghai Spring International Music Festival among other international music festivals. Moreover, Lin Daye is often invited to conduct many well-known orchestras at home and abroad.