Highlands Chapel Concert Series: Kristin Lee

Kristin Lee, violin

"It's not often that one attends a concert and hears a young virtuoso – not in the making but fully realized – as a master. Violinist Kristin Lee was simply spectacular. This is a violinist who has everything superlative technique..., interpretive mastery, and incredible sensitivity to the various styles of music she was performing. Lee was in full possession of the skills required to colorize the violin tone to create the widest possible gamut of expression... Listening to her, I was reminded of the young Isaac Stern. In a word, the recital was flawless. This is a violinist with a brilliant future." The Advocate

A recipient of the 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, as well as a top prizewinner of the 2012 Walter W. Naumburg Competition and the Astral Artists' 2010 National Auditions, Kristin Lee is a violinist of remarkable versatility and impeccable technique who enjoys a vibrant career as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and educator. Lee has appeared as soloist with top orchestras such as The Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Ural Philharmonic of Russia, the Korean Broadcasting Symphony, and in recitals on many of the world's finest stages including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Kennedy Center, Kimmel Center, Phillips Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Louvre Museum, Korea's Kumho Art Gallery, and the Ravinia Festival.

An accomplished chamber musician, Lee is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has appeared at Music@Menlo, La Jolla Festival, Medellin Festicamara of Colombia, and the Sarasota Music Festival, among others. She is a principal artist with Camerata Pacifica, sitting as The Bern ard Gondos Chair, and is concertmaster of the Metropolis Ensemble, with whom she premiered Vivian Fung's Violin Concerto, written for her, which appears on Fung's CD Dreamscapes (Naxos) and won the 2013 Juno Award. Born in Seoul, Lee began violin at age five and within one year won First Prize at the Korea Times Violin Competition. In 1995, she moved to the US to continue studies under Sonja Foster and in 1997 entered The Juilliard School's Pre-College. ltzhak Perlman, after hearing her perform with the Pre-College Symphony, chose her as a student in 2000. Lee holds a Master's degree from The Juilliard School, is a faculty member of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, and the co-founder and artistic director of Emerald City Music.

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