Magdalen Hsu-Li has a 3.9 GPA. It’s an impressive feat at any school, but Hsu-Li maintains her outstanding transcript at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass., where she studies piano, voice and songwriting.

Aside from excelling at a school that has graduated singer/songwriters Aimee Mann, Melissa Etheridge and producer/arranger Quincy Jones, Hsu-Li also crams in a packed touring schedule; she will play 17 dates across the country in April alone. One of those stops will be in Meadville. The multi-tasking wonder touches down in the Campus Center lobby on Monday, April 16 at 12 p.m. to give a concert and a lecture.

“I’m skipping seven classes to play all the shows, including the one at Allegheny,” Hsu-Li said. “But I’m good at multitasking; I’m a bit of an overachiever.”

Hsu-Li can back up that claim. She has recorded two albums, 2002’s “Fire” and 2005’s “Smashing the Ceiling” and sold over 12,000 copies through her independent label Chickpop Records, which she owns and operates. Her music has been hailed as “sweet, melodic and real” by the New York Times and blends piano-based pop, rock, eastern music and a hint of alt-country. She cites fellow Berklee student Ani Difranco, John Mayer and Allison Krauss as influences.

She also holds a Bachelor’s of fine arts in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, has studied jazz and classical voice and piano at Cornish College of the Arts and shared the stage with Ani Difranco, Macy Gray and Maragaret Cho.

She has a book based on her lecture in the works and will get around to writing it if she can find the right editor, or if she gets a break from school and touring. Hsu-Li has been touring in support of 2005’s “Smashing the Ceiling” for two years.

“Touring can be fun, but the travel itself is pretty excruciating at times,” Hsu-Li said. “But I like meeting different people, and being exposed to different parts of the country.”

Hsu-Li will talk about her experiences as a bi-sexual Asian American in her lecture, “Redefinition of Identity,” which she will present shortly after her concert.

“The lecture wasn’t initiated by me as an idea, although the topic and title are mine,” Hsu-Li said. “Students at Smith College asked me, ‘Can you speak as well as perform?’ At first I was like, ‘I don’t want to speak, I’m a musician!’ But I have a liberal arts training, I can write a paper, and I have identity issues and a lot to say [about them], especially [about] growing up in the south.”

Hsu-Li was born in Martinsville, Va. to Chinese immigrants. Her formative years in Virginia shaped Hsu-Li’s identity as a minority.

“In the south, you’d hear things like, ‘Hey, why are your eyes slanty?’ or ‘Hey, a bisexual Asian woman—can I have your number?’” Hsu-Li said. “I’m here, and people are having different reactions to me because I am Asian, [whereas] if you’re white, maybe you can walk through life without getting too much attention.”

Hsu-Li hopes to help others to define and understand their identities through her lecture and performance.

“I have a lot of information and material to work with, I’ve changed and grown, and I feel that it’s my Dharma, my soul’s purpose, [to tell people] about my own struggle, my searching for identity as a person, a multilayered person,” Hsu-li said. “I’ve had to learn about being a woman, a bisexual person, [and] it’s like a triple identity. It’s been interesting to say the least.”

The performance is co-sponsored by AGP and A5, and will be presented free of charge.