Pianist Hanchien Lee is widely regarded as one of the rising stars of the new
generation of pianists. Since her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age
sixteen, she has appeared as a recitalist and chamber musician in the US and
abroad at venues such as the Steinway Hall in New York, Verizon hall in
Philadelphia, Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, Centro Cultural del
Antiguo, Colegiata de San Juan Bautista in Spain and Convention Center in
Taipei.
Ms.
Lee has also performed as a guest artist of the Philadelphia Chamber Music
Society and at the Muhlenberg College Piano Series. She has performed with the
American Elite youth orchestra, Plainfield Symphony, Taiwan National Orchestra
and Poland’s Capella Cracovienses Chamber Orchestra.
Hanchien
Lee is the recipient of the prestigious Chi-Mei Scholarship and has won top
prizes at the Heida Hermanns International Piano
Competition, first prize at the Russel C. Wonderlic Piano Competition and
Yamaha Piano Competition.
As a
chamber musician, Ms. Lee has performed in numerous festivals including
Sarasota, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Van Cliburn Piano Institute, and the Music
Academy of the West. She is also a member of the prize-winning quartet that was
winner of the Yale School of Music Chamber Music Competition and performed with
them at Stony Brook University and Montana University, where she also conducted
a master class.
Hanchien
Lee made her solo piano debut at the age of seven at the Cultural Center in
Taipei, Taiwan. She was accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music at age eleven
where she studied with Eleanor Sokoloff and Claude Frank. Following graduation
from Curtis, Ms. Lee continued her studies at Yale University with Claude
Frank, earning both a Master’s Degree and an Artists’ Diploma. She is currently
pursuing a doctoral degree at the Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University
where she is working with Boris Slutsky. Ms. Lee has also
studied with such esteemed pianists as Gary Graffman, Richard Goode, Jerome
Lowenthal and Fou T’song.
Hanchien Lee (hannypiano), Piano
Biography
Pianist Hanchien Lee is widely regarded as one of the rising stars of the new
generation of pianists. Since her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age
sixteen, she has appeared as a recitalist and chamber musician in the US and
abroad at venues such as the Steinway Hall in New York, Verizon hall in
Philadelphia, Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, Centro Cultural del
Antiguo, Colegiata de San Juan Bautista in Spain and Convention Center in
Taipei.
Ms.
Lee has also performed as a guest artist of the Philadelphia Chamber Music
Society and at the Muhlenberg College Piano Series. She has performed with the
American Elite youth orchestra, Plainfield Symphony, Taiwan National Orchestra
and Poland’s Capella Cracovienses Chamber Orchestra.
Hanchien
Lee is the recipient of the prestigious Chi-Mei Scholarship and has won top
prizes at the Heida Hermanns International Piano
Competition, first prize at the Russel C. Wonderlic Piano Competition and
Yamaha Piano Competition.
As a
chamber musician, Ms. Lee has performed in numerous festivals including
Sarasota, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Van Cliburn Piano Institute, and the Music
Academy of the West. She is also a member of the prize-winning quartet that was
winner of the Yale School of Music Chamber Music Competition and performed with
them at Stony Brook University and Montana University, where she also conducted
a master class.
Hanchien
Lee made her solo piano debut at the age of seven at the Cultural Center in
Taipei, Taiwan. She was accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music at age eleven
where she studied with Eleanor Sokoloff and Claude Frank. Following graduation
from Curtis, Ms. Lee continued her studies at Yale University with Claude
Frank, earning both a Master’s Degree and an Artists’ Diploma. She is currently
pursuing a doctoral degree at the Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University
where she is working with Boris Slutsky. Ms. Lee has also
studied with such esteemed pianists as Gary Graffman, Richard Goode, Jerome
Lowenthal and Fou T’song.