First Prize winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition and the Concert Artist Guild International Competition, Korean-American pianist, Soyeon Kate Lee has been rapturously received as guest soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as many symphony orchestras across the US. On the international stage, Lee has appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ulsan Symphony Orchestra (South Korea), the Orquesta de Valencia (Spain) and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Dominican Republic), including performances under the batons of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jahja Ling, Jorge Mester and Otto-Werner Mueller.
As an active chamber musician, she frequently collaborates in many chamber music festivals throughout the US. Soyeon Kate Lee is a Naxos recording artist. Her discography spans Domenico Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas, Volumes 8 and 21 (8.570010, 8.573795), Liszt Transcriptions and Arrangements (8.572589) and two volumes of Piano Music by Scriabin (8.573527, 8.573528), with forthcoming releases of Clementi Sonatas.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Lee was awarded every prize available to a pianist at Juilliard, including the William Petschek Piano Debut Award at Lincoln Center and the Arthur Rubinstein Award. She is a Yamaha Artist and an associate professor of music in piano at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
For more information, visit www.soyeonkatelee.com.