Yu Kai Sun

Yu Kai Sun was born in 1998 in Shenzhen, China. She grew up in Montréal, Canada, where she began her violin studies at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal with Helmut Lipsky. She later earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, studying under Professor Victor Danchenko. Most recently, she completed her Master of Music at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where she studied with Martin Beaver.
A recipient of the JM Canada Foundation’s Choquette-Symcox 2023 Award and the Hnatyshyn Developing Artist Grant, she is an active performer across Europe, North America, and Asia. She was appointed co-concertmaster of the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in Japan in 2022 and concertmaster of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra in both 2018 and 2021.
Yu Kai Sun performs on a violin on loan by the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank.
Since August 2024, she has been a member of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg Academy.