以渾厚的音色及濃烈的情感投注於音樂的詮釋之中，大提琴家戴俐文的舞台魅力一直深受喜愛。耕耘教學充滿熱情、經驗豐富，學生在國內外音樂競賽及升學表現中成績斐然。 

生於台南，在台灣先後隨林肇富、曾素芝老師習琴。1986年赴美深造，於伊利諾大學就讀，先後師事 Ms. Laurian Laufman 及1978年柴可夫斯基大賽大提琴金牌得主Nathenial Rosen。大學時期曾獲兩年全額獎學金(Smith music scholarship)，多次奪得學院獎；畢業時獲頒"String Award"並列名於Honor List。1989年取得二年全額研究所獎學金，繼續留校就讀，擔任音樂系助教、樂團助理及大提琴首席。期間考取"Sinfonia de Camera"大提琴副首席，並獲邀參加義大利 Gubbio Festival 及Aspen Summer Music Festival。 

1991年取得碩士學位，以優異成績獲選為Pi Kappa Lambda會員。返國後，任職於高雄市交響樂團，擔任大提琴首席逾二十年，演出足跡遍及美國、日本、歐洲及大陸各地，曾與麥斯基、明茲、馬卡爾、卡列拉斯、傅聰、堤剛、林昭亮、胡乃元等大師同台演出，並曾多次與高雄市交響樂團、高雄市國樂團、台南市立交響樂團、國立高雄師範大學音樂系交響樂團、國立台灣師範大學音樂系交響樂團、台灣獨奏家交響樂團、台灣藝術家交響樂團、極地之光管弦樂團、雄頌管弦樂團、台灣愛樂民族管絃樂團、國立台南女中管弦樂團、台南市立青少年管弦樂團及龍門樂集合作演出協奏曲。 

獨奏及室內樂邀約不斷，深入全國各地巡演，推廣古典音樂不遺餘力，多次於廣播節目中接受專訪；帶領學生組成「高師樂苑」Cellissimo大提琴重奏團，獲邀至台南藝術節、衞武營玩藝節及高雄文藝奨頒獎典禮中表演；參與「台灣中提琴室內樂團」每學期偏鄉送音樂巡演；並為「對位室內樂團」創團成員之一，擔任音樂總監，參與跨界藝術演出。 

此外，經常受邀於學術單位、音樂營大師班及個別指導教學；擔任國內重要比賽評審，大學入學招聯會委員、弦樂評審及巡場委員。職業樂團大提琴評鑑及招考之評審，教師甄試、升等審查委員。擔任「奇美藝術獎」音樂類評審，NTSO「國際音樂人才拔尖計劃」弦樂評審，MTNA全美音樂教師協會年度比賽弦樂組評審。也應邀擔任國家文藝基金會音樂類常態補助審查等。 

目前為國立高雄師範大學音樂系專任大提琴教授，並任教於國立台灣師範大學。 

A profound cellist, Leewen Dai is now full-time Professor at National Kaohsiung Normal University (served as the Chair of Music Department during 2017 - 2020). She is also a faculty member at National Taiwan Normal University. Ms. Dai had served as principle cellist to the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra (1991 - 2014). In recent years, she was invited as Jury member to the "Chimei Arts Award", "NTSO International Young Artist Award" and "National Culture and Arts Fundation". 

Ms. Dai received both her bachelor's and master's degree in cello performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied with Prof. Laurien Laufman and Nathaniel Rosen (Tchaikovsky cello competition Gold Medalist in 1978). 

Born in Tainan, Ms. Dai received most of her early music training in Taiwan. During her college years, she studied in the U. S. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) where she was granted two years of "Smith Music Scholarship", "String Award", and also two years of "Teaching Assistantship". She was on the "Honor List" for her master's degree and was elected as a member to the "Pi Kappa Lambda" National Music Honor Society. 

As an active cellist, Ms. Dai has appeared in many music festivals such as "Victoria International Music Festival" (Canada), "Music Academy of the West" (Santa-Barbara, U.S.A.), "Gubbio Festival" (Italy) and "Aspen Summer Music Festival". Her professional recital appearances had reached out to major cities in Europe, America, Japan, China and Taiwan. In recent seasons, Ms. Dai performed as soloist with Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra, Tainan City Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of NTNU and NKNU. Her programs includes: J. C. Bach "Cello Concerto in C minor", É. Lalo "Cello Concerto in D minor", A. Dvorak "Cello Concerto in B minor", P. I. Tchaikovsky "Variations on a Rococo Theme", L. v. Beethoven "Triple concerto in C major" and J. Brahms "Double Concerto in A minor". 

Through her performing career, Ms. Dai shared stages and was inspired by great musicians, artists and maestros, such as Mischa Maisky, Shlomo Mintz, Jose Carreras, Yo-Yo Ma, Fou Tsong, Cho-Liang Lin, Nai-Yang Hu, Salvatore Accardo, Eric Kunzel and Zdenek Macal. She is devoting her career to follow the beautiful footsteps of those respectful artists.