高雄縣人。自幼跟隨吳漪曼、蕭滋、吳季札等教授學琴。在奧地利獲得薩爾茲堡莫札特音樂學院鋼琴演奏藝術演奏家文憑。在校期間，曾師事萊莫（Leimer）及賴格拉夫（Leygraf）兩位大師。畢業後，繼續留校研習作曲課程。

1976年赴德國漢諾威音樂院繼續跟隨賴格拉夫教授學琴。1978年通過德國國家鋼琴教師甄試，同年返台任教。這期間，曾獲加拿大班芙藝術中心(Banff Canada)與紐約茱莉亞音樂學院獎學金。出國深造，在茱莉亞音樂學院期間，隨拉泰納教授（Lateiner）學琴，並擔任該校正式之聲樂伴奏。

1978年至今，葉綠娜女士不曾間斷地以獨奏、雙鋼琴、伴奏、室內樂等各種不同的演出形態活躍於國內外樂壇；曾與臺北市立交響樂團、國家交響樂團、台北愛樂管弦樂團、加拿大加爾各里愛樂交響樂團、馬尼拉交響樂團、薩爾茲堡國際夏令營交響樂團和俄羅斯史維德洛夫斯克愛樂交響樂團搭檔演出。與其夫婿魏樂富絕佳默契,精湛的雙鋼琴演出，備受各界矚目。演奏足跡遍及德國、美國、俄羅斯、中南美洲、東歐、芬蘭、愛沙尼亞、澳洲、紐西蘭等地。並兩度與俄羅斯國家管絃樂團由普雷特涅夫指揮，及卡羅．龐弟指揮下演出。

葉綠娜女士除了在音樂上的傑出表現外，也經常在國內各大報章雜誌上發表音樂評論與文藝作品，其所著述之《晚期浪漫派時代的鋼琴技巧與鋼琴教學法》、《詮釋蕭邦練習曲作品二十五》及其與魏樂富所推出之「幻境」、「戲舞」、「青春舞曲」，等多張由Philips 與 Universal品牌出版的雙鋼琴演奏專輯。除此之外，錄製《蕭泰然鋼琴曲集》及《郭芝苑鋼琴曲集》均備受好評。1990年與魏樂富共同獲得國家文藝獎章。2010 年赴教廷演出教宗接見，外交部頒發睦誼獎章， 同年並獲金曲獎最佳演奏獎與最佳古典專輯獎，2012年獲金曲獎最佳製作人獎 ，2015年教育部藝術教育貢獻獎 。

除任教於國立臺灣師範大學外，葉綠娜一直活躍於各領域，自1996年至今擔任台北愛樂電台「黑白雙人舞」節目主持人。

For more than thirty years Lina Yeh has been one of Taiwan's most beloved pianists. Her preeminence as this country's most unique artist came into sharp focus in 1990 when she received the National Cultural Award in recognition of her achievements in the performing arts. Lina Yeh has performed all over the world as recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and in a piano duo team together with her husband Rolf-Peter Wille.

Her recent concert schedule has included tours in Australia and New Zealand, Eastern Europe, South America and the Caribbean as well as appearances in Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia, Canada, the United States, and the Far East. As soloists and piano duo she performed with various orchestras, including the Russian National Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Ural State Philharmonic, as well as all major orchstras in Taiwan. She collaborated with conductors such as Mikhail Pletnev, Simon Streatfield, Andrei Boreyko, Henry Mazer, Jajah Ling, Alexander Rudin, Carlo Ponti, Shao - Chia Lü, Wen-Pin Chien, Felix Chen and as chamber musician with violinists Ruggiero Ricci, Fredell Lack, cellists Michael Flaksman, Alexander Rudin, and flutist Robert Aitken. She has made guest appearances at festivals, among others "Braunschweig Classix" festival, Germany, the Banff festival, Canada, the Europe-Asian Piano Duo festival in Sverdlovsk, Russia, Klaaspärlimäng festival in Tallinn, Estonia, and the National Concert Hall series, Taipei.

The artist's refined musicianship in performing the classical repertoire as well as 20th-century Chinese music has won them great critical acclaim. In 1997 Paul Griffith commented in the New York Times on the strong professional musicianship of her playing. Her latest albums having been released on the Philips and PolyGram labels, Lina Yeh has recorded a substantial part of the two-piano and piano-duet repertoire with Rolf-Peter Wille. Having a diverse cultural and educational background and having graduated from and studied at schools as different as Salzburg, Hanover, Banff, and Juilliard, she has distinguished national careers as professor (Taiwan Normal University), writer and broadcaster as well. Her principal teachers include Jacob Lateiner, Hans Leygraf, Kurt Leimer, and Robert Scholz. She has also worked on contemporary music with John Cage and Robert Aitken.

Photo: Universal Music Chi-He Chou