Hsin-Lin Tsai, Violin

Violinist Hsin-Lin Tsai has concertized as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, and Taiwan, and has performed with artists such as Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Colin Davis, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and principal players of the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Montréal, and San Diego Symphony orchestras. Her playing has been praised as "outstanding" by Richard Dyer, former Chief Music Critic of the Boston Globe, and the legendary Yfrah Neaman said of her "I have not heard anyone play with such musicality, emotion, and beautiful sound in the last fifty years."

First Prize Winner of the Taiwan National Violin Competition, and the City of Tainan Violin Competition, she gave her New York City recital début at Carnegie Hall. She has released solo CD recordings with the label RTVE MUSICA, and she has performed at the Spanish National Radio, broadcasted live throughout Europe. Dr. Tsai was invited to perform at the Lucerne Music Festival in Switzerland and in some of the world's greatest halls, including Lincoln Center in New York, the National Concert Hall in Taiwan, the Víctor Villegas Auditorium in Spain, and historic Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall in Boston. She is a member of the "extraordinary" (Martín Llade, Melómano music magazine) L'Etoile Duo with her husband, violinist Miguel Pérez-Espejo. Together they champion new works by composers of our time.

Dr. Tsai graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with Distinction in Performance, and received the Artist Diploma from the Guildhall School of Music in London, on a full scholarship. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Violin Performance from Boston University. Her teachers include legendary artists such as Yfrah Neaman, Harvey Shapiro, Eric Rosenblith, Michèle Auclair, Eduard Schmieder and Erick Friedman.