Juliet Lai

Website: http://anemoiquintet.org/

Juliet Lai, clarinet, is an active chamber and orchestral musician, as well as pedagogue. A native of Taiwan and later resided in Hong Kong, she came to America at the age of thirteen to pursue her musical studies. Her teachers include David Shifrin, Phillip Rehfeldt, Deborah Chodacki, Thomas Martin and David Peck.

Since coming to Boston in 1999, Miss Lai has established herself as a highly sought-after musician. As an orchestral musician, she has performed with many local orchestras such as Gardner Chamber Orchestra, Kalistos Chamber Orchestra, Cape Symphony Orchestra and ALEA III. Her orchestral engagements have also extended nationally and internationally, with performances in orchestras such as The Cleveland Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina and Tyrol Symphony Orchestra in Austria. Currently, she holds the Second/Assistant Clarinet position in Hingham Symphony Orchestra.

Miss Lai is also an avid chamber musician. She is the clarinetist in Anemoi Quintet and Boston Octet, both of which she co-founded. She has also appeared in a wide spectrum of chamber music concerts, from contemporary works by living composers to works from the golden era of harmoniemusik. Her performances include concerts with New Music Ensemble Boston, with Sequenza Ensemble, as well as with other composition-specific groups such as Stravinsky's "Soldier's Tale" and Octet for Wind Instruments, Dvorak's "Serenade" Op. 44 and Mozart's "Gran Partita". In 2000, her involvement with chamber music brought her to Japan. As the clarinetist of the United Woodwind Quintet, she gave concerts and masterclasses throughout Hokkaido.

Miss Lai attended Interlochen Arts Academy and received her Bachelor of Music degree from Rice University and her Master of Music degree from Yale University. She is a Doctoral candidate at Boston University.