Soyeon Lee, Piano
Performances by Soyeon Lee
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| Dmitry Shostakovich | Prelude and Fugue in D-flat Major, Op. 87, No. 15 | 12/24/2010 |
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| Maurice Ravel | La Valse | 01/06/2011 |
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| Maurice Ravel | La Valse | 01/21/2009 |
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| Franz Liszt | Paraphrase from Gounod’s Faust | 11/12/2012 |
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| Isaac Albéniz | Fête-dieu à Seville, from Iberia, Book I | 11/12/2012 |
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| Isaac Albéniz | El puerto, from Iberia, Book I | 11/12/2012 |
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| Isaac Albéniz | Evocación, from Iberia, Book I | 11/12/2012 |
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| Béla Bartók | Romanian Folk Dances | 11/12/2012 |
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| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Sonata in C Major, K. 330 | 01/21/2009 |
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| Bach - Busoni | Chaconne | 01/06/2011 |
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| Isaac Albéniz | Evocación, from Iberia, Book I | 01/06/2011 |
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| Alexander Scriabin | Fantasy in b minor, Op. 28 | 01/17/2009 |
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| Alexander Scriabin | Etude in c-sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1 | 01/12/2009 |
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Soyeon Lee, Piano
Biography
Korean pianist Soyeon Lee has been hailed by The New York Times as a pianist with "a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style," while The Washington Post has lauded her for her "stunning command of the keyboard." Her winning performance at the 2010 Naumburg Piano Competition this past month garnered her First Prize which earns her a performance at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in March, 2011. She has previously appeared as guest soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, symphony orchestras of Columbus, Napa Valley, Bangor, San Diego, Scottsdale, Shreveport and New York City's Park Avenue Chamber Symphony. Her international appearances have been with the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Dominican Republic), and performances under the batons of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jahja Ling and Otto-Werner Mueller.
Ms. Lee's recital appearances include at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, Merkin Concert Hall and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Alice Tully Hall, Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland's Severance Hall, the Ravinia
Festival's "Rising Stars" series, Auditorio de Musica de Nacional in Madrid, and Baek-Am Art Hall in Seoul.
Ms. Lee earned her Bachelor and Master's degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald. While at Juilliard, she earned the distinguished Artist Diploma, won the Rachmaninoff Concerto Competition, two consecutive Gina Bachauer Scholarship Competitions and was awarded the Helen Fay Prize, Artur Rubinstein Prize, Susan Rose Career Grant and the William Petschek Piano Debut Award.
Soyeon Lee is a winner of the 2004 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, as well as the Second and Mozart prizes of the Cleveland International Piano Competition. She was awarded the Bronze Medal at the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition.
Ms. Lee currently serves as teaching assistant to Robert McDonald and Julian Martin at The Juilliard School, and is a Steinway Artist.