Kyung Sun Lee, violin

Kyung Sun Lee, Artistic Ambassador for Korea in 2002, has performed as soloist with the Munich Radio Orchestra under the baton of Yehudi Menuhin, the Belgian and Moscow national orchestras, the Jupiter Symphony, the Missouri Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony, and the Taipei City Symphony, among others. She has been a laureate in numerous international competitions, capturing bronze medals in the 1993 Queen Elisabeth Competition and the 1994 Tchaikovsky Competition, first prizes in the Washington and D’Angelo International Competitions, and third prize in the Montreal International Competition, where she also won the Audience Favorite and the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work prizes.

She has performed in Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center, among other venues, and she has participated in the Marlboro, Ravinia, and Aspen Festivals. Her recordings are available on the EMI and Sung-Eum labels. She studied with Dorothy Delay and Robert Mann at the Juilliard School and with Sylvia Rosenberg at the Peabody Conservatory, where she earned both a master of music degree and an artist diploma. She earned a bachelor of music degree from Seoul National University. Lee performs on a Joseph Guarnerius violin made in 1723. She is assistant professor of violin at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Kyung Sun Lee "possesses immaculate instrumentalism. Her playing is fluid as quicksilver, charged with electric energy … rich in sound and deeply felt."

— The Strad

"Lee played with a penetrating clarity, a strong sense of style and a technical supremacy that conquered all difficulties with unruffled ease."

— The Miami Herald

"[Lee] drew out big, vibrant, richly nuanced sounds and also, in addition to her complete technical brilliance, commanded the musical material with stylish elegance."