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VIOLINIST
KYUNG SUN LEE JOINS STRING FACULTY
AT
THE OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
AUGUST 10, 2001--Robert K. Dodson, Dean of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, announces the appointment to Oberlin's faculty of Kyung Sun Lee as assistant professor of violin, effective July 1, 2001.
A laureate in numerous competitions, Lee has won sixth prize in the 1994 Tchaikovsky Competition, the bronze medal in the 1993 Queen Elisabeth Competition, first prizes at the Washington and D’Angelo Competitions, and third prize in the Montreal International Competition. At Montreal, she also won prizes for Audience Favorite and for Best Performance of a Commissioned Work.
Lee has appeared as a featured soloist with the Munich Radio Orchestra (under the baton of Yehudi Menuhin), the Montreal Symphony, the Moscow National Orchestra, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic, the Taipei City Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony, and the Jupiter Symphony, among many others.
A native of South Korea, Lee received her Bachelor’s Degree from Seoul National University, and her Master’s Degree and Artist’s Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Sylvia Rosenberg. She also attended the Julliard School Professional Studies Program, studying with Dorothy DeLay and Robert Mann.
Lee has performed in Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center. As a chamber musician, she has participated in the Marlboro, Ravinia, Cape & Islands and Prussia Cove Festivals. She joined the KumHo/Asiana String Quartet in the fall of 2000; over the past year she has made extended tours of Europe and Africa with the group.
Her recordings of works by Prokofiev, Debussy, Bartok, Saint-Saëns, Chausson, Gershwin, and Achron are available on the Sung-Eum and EMI labels.
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, founded in 1865, is the nation's oldest continuously operating conservatory, and the only major music school in the country linked with a preeminent college of arts and sciences. The Conservatory offers majors in performance, composition, music education, music theory, electronic and computer music, jazz studies, music history, and a double major in piano performance and vocal accompanying. There are more than 400 public concerts on campus each year--most of them free--including performances by student ensembles, faculty members, and performances and master classes by guest artists.
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