Sean Lee’s debut album, “The Juilliard Sessions: Sean Lee” is now available on iTunes. Released by EMI Classics, this album features the Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 18 by Richard Strauss, and was recorded with pianist Sean Chen. The album reached the Top 20 of the iTunes “Top Classical Albums” list during the week of [...]
Lee will perform in New York, New Jersey, California, Boston, and Mexico during the months of February and March. Visit the Calendar page for information on these concerts, which include performances of concertos by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Prokofiev.
After a successful concert together in Miami, FL, Sean Lee will join Itzhak Perlman and alumni of the Perlman Music Program for more chamber music performances in Spring 2012 in Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
Sean Lee will return to Bedford, New York to perform with Anthony Newman and the Bedford Chamber Players on December 14, 2011. After performing the Beethoven Concerto on last season’s series, Lee returns this year to perform the Mendelssohn Concerto–more details here.
February 21, 2012 in Featured News, Uncategorized
Sean Lee’s debut album, “The Juilliard Sessions: Sean Lee” is now available on iTunes. Released by EMI Classics, this album features the Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 18 by Richard Strauss, and was recorded with pianist Sean Chen. The album reached the Top 20 of the iTunes “Top Classical Albums” list during the week of its release.
February 13, 2012 in Featured News, Uncategorized
Lee will perform in New York, New Jersey, California, Boston, and Mexico during the months of February and March. Visit the Calendar page for information on these concerts, which include performances of concertos by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Prokofiev.
February 13, 2012 in Featured News, Uncategorized
After a successful concert together in Miami, FL, Sean Lee will join Itzhak Perlman and alumni of the Perlman Music Program for more chamber music performances in Spring 2012 in Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
November 23, 2011 in Featured News, Uncategorized
Sean Lee will return to Bedford, New York to perform with Anthony Newman and the Bedford Chamber Players on December 14, 2011. After performing the Beethoven Concerto on last season’s series, Lee returns this year to perform the Mendelssohn Concerto–more details here.
November 16, 2011 in Featured News, Uncategorized
On November 18, 2011, Sean Lee will play two recitals for the Friday Musicale series in Jacksonville, FL–a series which has been graced by performers including Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Joined by pianist Rohan De Silva, Lee will perform works of Beethoven, Strauss, and Saint-Saëns–more information here.
November 16, 2011 in Featured News, Uncategorized
Sean Lee and other alumni of the Perlman Music Program will perform in an evening of chamber music with violinist Itzhak Perlman in Miami, FL on November 17, 2011. Visit the Arsht Center’s website for more information here.
September 8, 2011 in Uncategorized
August 29, 2011 – Sean Lee was announced as one of twelve winners of the Chamber Music Society Two auditions. Lee will perform with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 2012-2015 as a member of this program. Read the official announcement about the residency here.
July 14, 2011 in Uncategorized
The month of June included two exciting recitals for Sean Lee, the first being at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium for the Target Free Thursdays series. Performing with pianist Naomi Kudo, Lee presented a program exploring music of Spain, featuring works by Isaac Albeniz, Manuel de Falla, Pablo de Sarasate, and also of French composer Claude Debussy.
Lee also performed with pianist John Root at the Harvard Club of New York, performing sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss, and assorted encores.
At the end of the month, Lee performed at the Perlman Music Program in Shelter Island, NY, collaborating in chamber music performances with faculty members including Ronald Leonard, Merry Peckham, Rebecca Albers, and Itzhak Perlman. 2011 is Lee’s second summer serving on the violin faculty of the Perlman Music Program Summer Music School.
June 9, 2011 in Uncategorized
Sean Lee started the month of May with a performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht with alumni of the Perlman Music Program at New York City’s Neue Galerie. With additional alumni of the Perlman Music Program, Lee also joined Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for a joint performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center, as part of the Orpheus Annual Gala.
Lee also gave the last of seven outreach performances throughout the months of April and May as a guest with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Organized in collaboration with Lincoln Center’s Department of Programs and Services for People with Disabilities (PSPD), Lee performed at hospitals and nursing homes to bring chamber music to residents who are unable to attend concerts in conventional concert venues.
Finally, Lee led the Juilliard Orchestra for the last time as concertmaster, for the 2011 Commencement Concert at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with conductor James DePreist. Lee also graduated from the Juilliard School with his Master of Music Degree, and received the William Schuman Prize for outstanding achievement and leadership in Music.
May 30, 2011 in Uncategorized
As part of the Meet the Composer festival, Sean Lee performed with the Metropolis Ensemble at Symphony Space in New York, premiering a work by Kati Agocs, Vessel.
Lee also led the Juilliard Orchestra as concertmaster at Avery Fisher Hall, for a performance of Mahler’s 9th Symphony under the baton of Alan Gilbert, Music Director of the New York Philharmonic.
After giving his final graduation recital at the Juilliard School, Lee joined East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) for the second time as a guest member, performing in Rolla, Missouri, and at the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music series. The tour with ECCO included at performances with pianist Sara Davis Buechner, and the premier of Kenji Bunch’s Supermaximum.
