18 May Lindy Tsai
New Jersey-native Lindy Tsai began playing the cello at the age of four and has been a member of the Louisville Orchestra since 2019. She received her Master’s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts under Yeesun Kim, and prior to that received her Bachelor’s degree and Performer’s Diploma at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under Eric Kim. She also briefly attended the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Steven Doane.
Throughout her career, Lindy has performed with many world-renown musicians such as Joshua Bell, David Finckel, Yo-Yo Ma, Wu Han, Steven Isserlis, Fred Sherry, Timothy Eddy, Carter Brey, Paul Katz, Rafael Figueroa, Colin Carr, and Jian Wang. She has performed in dozens of concert halls around the United States and Asia, most notably when she made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2007 at the age of 15. Her performances have also been broadcasted on New York’s classical music radio station WQXR as well as NPR. Lindy also attended many music festivals over the years such as Aspen Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Music Master’s Course in Yokohama, Japan, run by the New York Philharmonic’s previous music director Alan Gilbert as well as the Tokyo, Kyoto, and Ryukyu Symphony Orchestra’s music director Naoto Otomo.
Lindy currently plays on a 2014 Jason Viseltear cello from New York City.
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