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, Division, and State MTNA Young Artist (Collegiate) String Competitions, and they 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, Hilary Hahn, 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, 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 Taipei National University of the Arts, and at Tufts University with the composition department.