| "More
than remarkable ..... unbelievable"
Ruggiero
Ricci
"Resourcing
with bravas"
The
Washington Post, USA
Min
Lee is one of the finest young virtuosos in the
world today. Despite her youth, her awards and
honours have been extraordinary, nurtured by luminaries
of the musical world as violinists Ruggiero Ricci,
Josef Gingold and the Czech Republic's Vaclav
Snitil.
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| Min
started playing the violin at the age of two and
gave her first public performance at the age of
five. At nine years old, Min enrolled in a program
at the University of Michigan directed by Stephen
Shipps. At 14, she was admitted to the Yale University
School of Music where she studied under the eminent
violinist Erick Friedman, pupil of both the legendary
Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein. Min Lee completed
the Masters program this year becoming one of the
youngest ever to graduate from Yale. |
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Min's
talent soon caught the attention of her native Singapore.
She received the Best Performer Award in 1991 and
the Young Artist Award in 1998. The country then
presented her with the gift of a 1704 Guarnerius
filius Andreas violin, establishing her as the icon
of Singapore's cultural renaissance. |
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| Through
performances she has given, she has helped to raise
more than US$3 million for charitable organisations
such as the Home Nursing Foundation, International
Action for Aids, and the Hong Kong Red Cross Society.
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| Min's
talent, educational and altruistic efforts have
been recognised by HSBC who made her the first recipient
of the HSBC Youth Excellence Initiative. As HSBC
Young Artist, Min performed in major Asian cities
last year and launched her European debut at London's
Wigmore Hall in October 2001. She continues to support
HSBC's Youth Excellence Initiative through ongoing
Youth outreach programmes. |
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| Having
recently performed with Charles Dutoit and the NHK
Symphony Orchestra, Min's performances in 2002 will
include concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
at the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Vienna
Chamber Orchestra, and an Asian and Australia recital
tour. |
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| Josef
Gingold, the late violin pedegogue proclaimed Min
as "a rare and special talent whose music the world
will love", He was right. And here it is. "Debut"
is Min Lee's first, and much anticipated, album.
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MIN'S
REPERTOIRE
Orchestra
concertos
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Bach
Double Violin Concerto
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| Barber
Violin Concerto |
| Beethoven
Volin Concerto |
| Beethoven
"Triple" Concerto |
| Brahms
Violin Concerto |
| Brahms
Double Concerto |
| Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 2 |
| Bruch
Scottish Fantasy |
| Dvorak
Violin Concerto |
| Ho/Chen
Butterfly Lovers' Concerto |
| Lalo
Symphonie Espagnole |
| Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto No. 2 |
| Mendelssohn
Piano and Violin Concerto |
| Mozart
Violin Concertos Nos. 3,4,5 |
| Paganini
Violin Concerto No. 1 |
| Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2 |
| Silbelius
Violin Concerto |
| Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto |
| Vieuxtemps
Violin Concertos No. 5 |
| Wieniawski
Violin Concerto No. 1 and No. 2 |
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| Orchestra
other works |
| Beethoven
Two Romances, Dvorak Mazurek and Romance, Tchaikovsky
Valse Scheroz and Melodie, Waxman "Carmen" Fantasie,
Wieniawski "Faust Fantasy" |
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| Recital
solo violin |
| Bach
Sonatas and Partitas |
| Ernst
Last Rose of Summer, (Schubert) Erlkonig |
| Paganini
Caprices, Nel Corp Piu Non Si Sento, God Save the
King |
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| Recital
Sonatas for piano/violin |
| Beethoven,
Brahms, Debussy, Faure, Franck, Mozart, Richard
Strauss, Respighi |
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| Virtuoso
works with piano |
| Brahms,
Bazzini, Kreisler, Smetana, Paganini, Sarasate,
Saint-Saens, Waxman, Wienawski, Vieuxtemps, transcriptions
by Heifetz |
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