Violin Concert

Week of July 24, 2021

Sunday 8:00 pm Oaktree Pavilion

San Diego Symphony Orchestra violinist Pei-Chun Tsai of Taiwan, is a first-prize winner of the Tainan Violin Competition, and went on to win the first prize of the Taiwan National Violin Competition twice. She made her solo debut in Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in 1997. She has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in the Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. Pei-Chun has participated in the Yellow Barn and Taos summer music festivals in the United States as well as the Holland Music Session in Amsterdam.  Ms. Tsai completed her degrees in violin performance at The Juilliard School where she studied with Joseph Fuchs. In addition, she has studied extensively with Earl Carlyss, Daniel Phillips, Harvey Shapiro and Sally Thomas. She received her DMA in violin performance from the City University of New York in 2010 with her doctoral thesis “Richard Strauss’ Violin Writing in His Early Years from 1870 to 1898- The Influence of the Violin Sonata.”  In addition to her performing career, Ms. Tsai is a devoted teacher. As a scholarship recipient at The Julliard School, she was on the faculty of the pre-college division, and has been on the faculty as Lecturer in Violin at San Diego State University since 2011.