Soran Sophia Lee (Soran Sophia Lee), Violin

Biography

Soran Sophia Lee has
won numerous competitions including the Korea Broadcasting System (KBS), Korean
Chamber Ensemble, the Euro International Competition, and the Yale Chamber
Music Competition.  These successes gave
her many opportunities to reach a broader audience base through live performances
and mass media, including multiple recitals sponsored by the Kumho Foundation
by winning the Kumho Young Artist Audition. In 2006, she toured with the KBS
Orchestra as the winner of their annual competition, performances which were
televised nationally. She has performed in major venues throughout Korea as
soloist with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, the Pusan Philharmonic, Suwon
Philharmonic, Korean Chamber Ensemble, and the JK Ensemble.

Outside
Korea, she has been in demand as concerto soloist, chamber musician, and
recitalist with performances in Japan, Germany, France, Poland, Switzerland,
and the Czech Republic. In 2007, her duo recital with pianist Adam Bloniarz was
broadcast on Radio Suisse Romande in Switzerland. Her summer music festival appearances include venues
in Switzerland, France, Austria, Germany, and in the United States with the
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Music Academy of the West.

Ms.
Lee earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Seoul National University and her Masters
degree from Yale School of Music studying under Syoko Aki and the Tokyo String
Quartet. Now based in the United States, she commenced her studies as a doctoral
candidate at the State University of New York in Stony Brook with Soovin Kim,
Philippe Graffin, Philip Setzer and the
Emerson String Quartet. She has been on the roster of the Swiss Global Artistic
Foundation since 2008.