Steinway Piano Series
The concerts of James Tocco and Ursula Oppens are presented in collaboration with the Adams Foundation. The remaining concerts of the 2011-2012 Steinway Piano Series are sponsored by R. Philip Hilf, CFP®, Financial Advisor, and Jeffrey Mendola, CMFC, Managing Principal of the Monroeville office of Waddell & Reed.
All Steinway Piano Series concerts are held in the theater at Pittsburgh CAPA on Sundays at 3:00 p.m.*
Soyeon Lee October 9, 2011 *concert at 7pm 
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Sponsored by R. Philip Hilf, CFP®, Financial Advisor, and Jeffrey Mendola, CMFC, Managing Principal of the Monroeville office of Waddell & Reed.
Soyeon Lee
October 9, 2011 *concert at 7pm Program: TBA First prize winner of the prestigious 2010 Naumburg International Piano Competition, Korean pianist Soyeon Lee has already been hailed by The New York Times as a pianist with "a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style," while The Washington Post has lauded her for her "stunning command of the keyboard." Ms. Lee’s 2011/12 season begins with return engagements to Finland’s Mantta Music Festival in an all-Liszt recital broadcasted by the Finnish National Radio, Montreal Chamber Music Festival, and Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival, as well as debuts with the Orquesta de Valencia at the Palau de Musica and the Ulsan Symphony Orchestra of Korea. Highlights of this season also include return engagements to Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Series, Howland Chamber Music Circle Piano Series, Bozeman Symphony, and recitals at Weill Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Candlelight Concert Society, Steinway Society of Western Pennsylvania, recital tour of Hawaii, as well as performances with the Abilene, Naples, and Santa Fe Symphony Orchestras. In December, she returns to the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto for her second album with Naxos featuring the opera transcriptions of Franz Liszt. Ms. Lee has been rapturously received as guest soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, symphony orchestras of Columbus, Bangor, Bozeman, Boca Raton, Wyoming, Bozeman, Cheyenne, Napa Valley, San Diego, Scottsdale, Shreveport and New York City's Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra (South Korea) and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Dominican Republic), including performances under the batons of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jahja Ling and Otto-Werner Mueller. Recital appearances include New York City programs at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall and Lincoln Center for the Performing Art's Alice Tully Hall, Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland's Severance Hall, the Ravinia Festival's "Rising Stars" series, Auditorio de Musica de Nacional in Madrid - part of a 13-city tour of Spain. Soyeon Lee was featured on the January 2006 cover of SYMPHONY magazine's annual "Emerging Artists" issue and in the 2008 edition of Musical America's "More Thrills of Discovery." Her debut CD on the Naxos label, featuring sonatas of Scarlatti, was released in February 2007 to critical acclaim. KOCH International Classics released her second album in April 2009 for which she was awarded the 2009 Young Artist Award from the Classical Recording Foundation. Ms. Lee earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees, and the Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where she worked extensively with Robert McDonald and Jerome Lowenthal. While at Juilliard, she won every award granted to a pianist including the Rachmaninoff Concerto Competition, two consecutive Gina Bachauer Scholarship Competitions, Arthur Rubinstein Prize, Susan Rose Career Grant, and the William Petschek Piano Debut Award. Soyeon Lee is a winner of the 2004 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, as well as the Second and Mozart prizes of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and the Bronze Medal of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition. Ms. Lee is currently pursuing her Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York with Ursula Oppens and Richard Goode, and serves as teaching assistant to Robert McDonald and Julian Martin at the Juilliard School. She is a Steinway Artist. |