Anyi Cai

Pianist and harpsichordist Anyi Cai was born and raised in her hometown Hubei, China. She attended the Wuhan Conservatory of Music Middle School and studied piano with professor Man Wu in 2010. In 2012 she started her musical journey in the U.S. with the acceptance into the Pre-College Advanced Music Division Program at Millersville University of Pennsylvania under the guidance of Dr. Xun Pan. In 2016 she was granted the Dean Dutcher Scholarship and Lancaster International Piano Festival scholarship for her Bachelor’s of Arts degree in both piano and harpsichord performance at the Tell School of Music of Millersville University of Pennsylvania. She later earned her Master’s of Music degree in Harpsichord Performance under the tutelage of Dr. Charlotte Mattax Moersch from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At the moment, Cai is finishing her post-Master’s degree at the Yale School of Music for harpsichord with the Harry & Margaret Simeone Scholarship and the Stephen & Denise Adams Fellowship. She is in the leading harpsichordist in North America, Arthur Haas’s studio with a full tuition waiver and living stipend. Besides school life, Cai is an active music collaborator, an organist at Grace Lutheran Church in Stratford, CT, and a passionate music educator teaching secondary harpsichord lessons at Yale University and private piano lessons. Cai has given solo performances in great venues including the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C, Wiener Musikverein in Austria, Ware Center in Pennsylvania. In 2020, she played the Grieg piano concerto in A minor as a soloist with Millersville University Symphony Orchestra at Winter Visual and Performing Arts Center. Besides giving performances, Cai has also won prizes in competitions nationally and internationally, including the first prize of the Louis Vyner Scholarship Competition in 2019; third prize of Lancaster Instrumental Competition in 2015; two first prizes in “Liszt Memorial Prize” at the Hong Kong International Piano Competition in 2012.