Sean Hsi 

As a Taiwan-born violinist, he is the 2025 Second Prize winner of the Odesa International Violin Competition and the 2026 recipient of the Luminarts Classical Music Violin Fellowship. He has performed as a soloist with the DePaul Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of Strings in Taiwan, and the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, with appearances at prestigious venues including the National Concert Hall in Taipei and Gannon Concert Hall in Chicago. An avid recitalist and chamber musician, he has also performed extensively across New York, Taipei, and Chicago. 

He was a semifinalist in both the International Violin Competition in Honour of K. Lipiński and H. Wieniawski and the Tchaikovsky International Competition for Young Musicians. In 2021, he was awarded the Mark Zinger Memorial Foundation Scholarship.

He earned his Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School under Masao Kawasaki, following earlier studies in the Juilliard Pre-College Division with I-Hao Lee and Hyo Kang. He recently completed a Performance Certificate at DePaul University, where he also received his Master of Music, studying under the tutelage of Professor I-Hao Lee.