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Pianist Mihae Lee has been captivating audiences throughout North America, Europe,
and Asia in solo recitals and chamber music concerts. She has appeared frequently
as a soloist with das Symphonie Berlin in the Philharmonic Concert Hall in Berlin
and in recitals in Lincoln Center, Jordan Hall, and the National Philharmonic in
Warsaw. An active chamber musician, Ms. Lee is an artist member of the Boston Chamber
Music Society, appearing regularly both in Boston and on tour in this country and
abroad. Her recordings of Brahms, Shostakovich, Bartok, and Stravinsky with the
members of BCMS were critically acclaimed by High Fidelity, CD Review, and
Fanfare magazines, the reviews calling her sound "as warm as Rubinstein, yet
virile as Toscanini."
In addition, Ms. Lee is a member of The Triton Horn Trio, along with violinist Ani
Kavafian and French hornist William Purvis, and has premiered works of Gunther
Schuller, Paul Lansky, and Henri Lazarof. She appears frequently at numerous
international festivals, including Dubrovnik, Amsterdam, Groningen, Great Woods, OK
Mozart, Mainly Mozart, Chestnut Hill, Rockport, Sebago-Long Lake, Bard, and the
Seattle Chamber Music Festival. Ms. Lee has been a guest artist with the Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center; has performed regularly at Bargemusic in New York;
and has collaborated with the Muir, Cassatt, and Manhattan string quartets. She is
often heard over the airwaves on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today,” on WNYC
and WQXR in New York City, and on WGBH in Boston.
Born in Seoul, Korea, Ms. Lee made her professional debut at the age of fourteen with
the Korean National Orchestra after becoming the youngest grand prizewinner at the
prestigious National Competition held by the President of Korea. In the same year, she
came to the United States on a scholarship from The Juilliard School Pre-College, and
subsequently won many further awards including First Prize at the Kosciuszko Foundation
Chopin Competition and the Juilliard Concerto Competition. Ms. Lee received her
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School and Artist Diploma from the
New England Conservatory studying with Martin Canin and Russell Sherman. She has
released compact discs on the Etcetera, EDI, Northeastern, and BCMS labels.
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