He studied Arts at Harvard University and was admitted to the Jazz Performance Program at the New England Conservatory of Music with honors, becoming the first five-year Bachelor of Arts and Master of Music double major.

He lives in New York for a long time and has won Vandoren Emerging Artist and Yamaha Young Performing Artists The Youth Competition winner, now a member of the Great On Paper band, completed an East Coast tour in August 2015 with piano Isaac Wilson, bass Simon Willson and drummer Robin Baytas, and plans to release their debut album in early 2016.

Sun Kai has performed many times in international venues such as New York, Beijing, Paris, Panama, Calcutta, India, etc. In addition, Sun Kai is a writer for Jazz Speaks and contributes to the official website of The Jazz Gallery, a non-profit jazz center in New York. He was editor-in-chief of the blog from 2013 to 2014,