Cai enjoys a varied performing career with chamber groups, classical and operatic orchestras, West End shows, as a session musician, soloist and conductor and has always passionately taught alongside his performing career with roles as head of brass at Shrewsbury school and St Paul’s juniors (Hammersmith) as well as his private teaching studio.
Having graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music (Bmus) and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Mmus) his freelance orchestral experience includes the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Welsh National Opera, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, English National Ballet, Halle Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of India, London Contemporary Orchestra well as guest principal with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Ensemble Cymru chamber group.
He has performed with commercial artists such as Sigur Rós, Bastille, Kosheen, Public service broadcasting, Russell watson, Luke Sital-Singh and The Sea and I. He toured with the ‘Miss Saigon’ UK production from 2017-19 and the ‘Wicked’ UK tour production from 2015 -17 before a run of Carousel (Regents park open air theatre) in 2020. He was the 1st trumpet player for the world premieres of both Only the brave (WMC and Soho theatre productions) and Flowers for Mrs Harris (Sheffield theatre productions) and has deputised on a number of other touring and west end shows such as Matilda, Guys and Dolls, Les Miserables, Annie, Oliver and Wicked.