Kyung Sun Lee has been a laureate in the Tchaikowsky, Queen Elizabeth, Washington, D'Angelo and Montreal International Competitions. Lee's career has included concerto performances with orchestras throughout North America, as well as the Munich Radio Orchestra under Yehudi Menuhin, Moscow National Orchestra, and Belgian National Orchestra in Europe, the Seoul Philharmonic, KBS Orchestra, Pu-Chun Philharmonic and Taipei City Symphony in Asia, and the New Zealand Symphony. She has been heard in Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Bargemusic in New York, and at both the Kennedy Center and Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. As a chamber musician she has participated in the Marlboro, Ravinia, and Cape & Islands Festivals in the US, and the Prussia Cove Festival in England.

Lee received degrees in music from Seoul National University and the Peabody Conservatory. She also attended the Juilliard School in the professional studies program. Her teachers have included Sylvia Rosenberg, Robert Mann, Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. Her 1998-'99 season includes performances of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, the Ravel Tzigane (with orchestra), the Four Seasons of Vivaldi, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in Merkin Hall, works of Handel with harpsichordist Igor Kipnis, cellist Yehuda Hanani, and mezzo-soprano Lucille Beer, and an encore performance with Jens Nygaard and the Jupiter Symphony, this time playing Benjamin Godard's G minor concerto. As recording artist, her CD of Prokofiev, Debussy, and Bartók-recorded with pianist/husband Brian Suits-was released in the spring of 1993 on the Sung-Eum record label, receiving outstanding reviews from Fanfare and Strad magazines. Their second CD, which includes works of Saint-Saëns, Chausson, Gershwin, Achron, and Suits himself, was released in December of 1997. Lee plays a Joseph Guarnerius violin made in 1723.

RECENT REVIEWS

 

"the most musical, the most intelligent soloist to have played with the orchestra in quite a while"

Tuscaloosa News

 

"Godard's 'Concerto Romantique' could not have had a more outstanding soloist than Kyung Sun Lee. She drew out big, vibrant, richly nuanced sounds and also, in addition to her complete technical brilliance, commanded the musical material with stylish elegance. I found her distinguished championship of this long-buried work worthy of comparison to what the late Nathan Milstein made of the Goldmark Concerto-it was that good!"

New York Concert Review (Harris Goldsmith)

 

"the kinetic energy that constantly bubbled and threatened to erupt on to the stage put this performance well ahead of many of Lee's more distinguished colleagues."

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

 

"Kyung Sun Lee and her pianist/husband provide one of the most penetrating debut CDs I have heard in a long time."

Fanfare

 

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

Strad