The violinist Anna Lee was born in South Korea in 1995, and spent her early childhood years in Japan and Singapore. At the age of four she began violin lessons with Alexander Souptel, and gave her debut performance as a soloist one and a half years later, when she performed Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Lan Shui. At the age of six she moved to New York, where she was accepted as a student at the Pre-College of the Juilliard School to study under Masao Kawasaki. She graduated from the Juilliard School in 2013, and went on to enrol as a student of Comparative Literature (French and Russian) at Harvard College. Since 2014 she has been studying with Ana Chumachenco as a Young Soloist at Kronberg Academy. She also receives a scholarship from the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, and participates in the intensive music weeks held there.

The young violinist was amongst the winners of the “Concours International Tibor Varga Sion-Valais” and the “Menuhin Competition” in 2010 and 2012. She was also awarded Kronberg Academy’s “Prince of Hessen Prize” and the “Bernhard and Mania Hahnloser Violin Prize” at the Verbier Festival Academy.

Anna Lee has already performed in the most highly acclaimed venues in the USA, including several performances in the Carnegie Hall. She has also performed in Wigmore Hall in London. She has given debut performances with several renowned orchestras, including the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, the Park Avenue Chamber Orchestra and the Long Island Orchestra. In Europe she has performed regularly at various music festivals (e.g. the “Eckelshausener Musiktage”, the “Wettenberger Winterkonzerte”, the “Mendelssohn Tage der Musik” in Bad Soden), and is a welcome guest at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. She is also an active chamber musician, playing at violin masterclasses and at the “Chamber Music Connects the World” festival in Kronberg, for example together with Gidon Kremer, András Schiff, Yuri Bashmet, Christian Tetzlaff and Steven Isserlis. She has also added depth to her extensive experience by participating in the Marlboro Music Festival.

Anna Lee plays the ex-Tadolini/ex-Liszt Stradivarius (Cremona 1706), which is generously loaned to her by the Rin Collection.

April 2016