Soyeon Lee, Piano

Pianist Soyeon Lee, hailed by critics and audiences alike for performances of rare passion and grace, is winner of numerous top prizes including Cleveland, the 2005 Concert Artists Guild and Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competitions. She has performed throughout the US and abroad, at Lincoln Center and Weill Hall in NY, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Auditorio Nacional de Musica in Madrid. Her 2003-04 season featured a 13-city recital tour of Spain. She has been heard with the London Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional of the Dominican Republic, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Shreveport Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra.

In 2004 Soyeon Lee made her Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully Hall as recipient of the Juilliard's prestigious William Petschek Piano Debut Award. While at Juilliard she also won the Rachmaninoff Concerto Competition, two consecutive Gina Bachauer scholarship competitions, the Helen Fay Prize, and the Susan Rose Career Grant.

She recently recorded her first CD, featuring sonatas of Scarlatti, for the Naxos label, which is due for release during this season.

She has performed at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, the Laguna Beach Festival and the Taos Chamber Music Festival. A recent project includes joint performance in Seoul with her pop-star sister Soyoun Lee. She has been heard live on WQXR's Young Artist Showcase and WNYC's Soundcheck as well as Washington DC's NPR and WGMS, and Cleveland's WCLV. A classic musical documentary can be seen in the NHK documentary "Classic Club" airing nationally in Japan.

Soyeon Lee' studies began at age five in Korea. At nine she moved to the US graduating with highest honors from the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, earned BA and MA degrees at Juilliard and was awarded Juilliard's distinguished Artist Diploma and the Arthur Rubinstein prize, Juilliard's highest honor for graduating pianists.