Pei-Lun Tsai

Dr. Pei-Lun Tsai is a Taiwanese clarinetist based in Tokyo, performing internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and educator. She has performed throughout Asia, North America, and Europe.

In 2025, she collaborated with IRCAM (France) at the C-LAB Sound Art Festival, performing Pierre Boulez’s Dialogue de l’ombre double, and performed as a featured soloist in the Boulez Project Solo Series with a performance of Domaines. In 2026, she served on the Artistic Leadership Team of ClarinetFest 2026.

From 2011 to 2014, Dr. Tsai was an Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada). She has been invited to perform at numerous international festivals, including the ACL Korea International Conference and Festival, the Malaysian Contemporary Music Festival (SMCC), the ASEAN Nanning Music Festival, the Thailand International Composition Festival (TICF), the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, the ICA Mid-America Clarinet Festival, SIPFest (Indonesia), and the Weiwuying International Festival of Arts (Taiwan). She has also presented guest lectures at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Dr. Tsai earned degrees from the Taipei National University of the Arts and Northwestern University before completing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree on a full scholarship at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. She is a member of the International Clarinet Association (ICA) New Music Committee, teaches at several international and Japanese schools in Tokyo, and regularly serves as an adjudicator for music competitions throughout Japan.