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Hsin-Jung Tsai, a native of Taiwan, had received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Music Theory and Composition from the Taipei National University of the Arts, and Master of Music Degree from the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College of City University of New York (CUNY),where she studied with Bruce Saylor. And, Ms. Tsai has completed the requirement of the PhD-DMA program in Music Composition at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she studied with Tania Leon and Bernadette Speach. Ms. Tsai has had her compositions performed in Japan, Taiwan and the United States, by conductors Sung Su Jeong, Chun Fung Lee, Lance Inouye, as well as the Julliard String Ensemble and the Contemporary Chamber Orchestra of Taipei. In May 2000, Ms. Tsai had her chamber music recital at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall. In addition, Ms. Tsai has collaborated on films and theater projects: she composed a clarinet solo piece, Poetry of a Painter, for a short film on the life of the artist, Fernando Gerassi; the score for Allatonceness, a multimedia performance where the composer also conducted; music design and improvisation for a documentary film Turning Japanese; music design for Dorothy Tan’s play, Palace of Loneliness, produced by Multistage Inc. and HERE Theatre for the Performing Arts in New York; and the score for a documentary film Ocean and People produced by Civilization Explorer Association (CEA). In 2002, Ms. Tsai received the Music Composition Award from the Asian American Research Institute in New York. In 2006, Ms. Tsai was invited as a guest composer and held a solo composition recital at Tarrant County College South Campus, Fort Worth, Texas.