Hsin-Lin Tsai has concertized as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S, Europe, and Taiwan, and has performed with distinguished musicians that include principal players and members of the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Montréal, and San Diego Symphony orchestras, and with artists such as Andris Nelsons, John Williams, and Sir Colin Davis. 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 in the Taiwan National Violin Competition, she gave her New York City recital début at Carnegie Hall and has released solo CD recordings with the label RTVE MUSICA in Europe and Japan. Dr. Tsai was invited to perform at the Lucerne Music Festival in Switzerland and venues including Lincoln Center in New York, the National Concert Hall in Taiwan, the Víctor Villegas Auditorium in Spain, and Boston’s Symphony Hall. A guest artist at numerous international festivals, she plays in the "extraordinary" (Martín Llade, Melómano music magazine, Spain) L’Étoile Violin Duo with her husband, violinist Miguel Pérez-Espejo. Together they are also Co-Artistic Directors of The Renewal Series, a multidisciplinary concert series that is committed to education. As an orchestra musician, she has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Dr. Tsai’s students have performed as soloists and in recitals in venues such as Carnegie Hall, and have won first prizes in competitions and professional orchestra positions, most recently First Prize at the National, Divisional, and State MTNA Young Artist (collegiate) String Competitions, and have been invited to international festivals that include the prestigious Stauffer Center for Strings in Cremona, Italy, and performed in master classes with legendary artists Salvatore Accardo, Lynn Harrell and Anne Sophie Mutter, among others.
Hsin-Lin has taught at the International Master Classes of the Mediterranean in Spain, Boston University, and All Newton Music School. She is currently on faculty at Tufts University, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, New England Conservatory prep division, and is an affiliated instructor at Harvard University. She has done artist residencies both nationally and internationally; most recently at Tufts University with the composition department and at Taipei National University of the Arts.
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 dissertation Poulenc Violin Sonata: An Analysis has become a reference work for scholars worldwide.