2024 Baum Artist Residency: Soyeon Kate Lee, piano
Sunday, April 14, 2024
2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Staff, Students

2024 Baum Artist is Soyeon Kate Lee, piano professor at The Juilliard
School. Please join us for her residency at GVSU.
Solo Recital: 2pm, Sherman van Solkema Recital Hall
Program
to include Schumann Kreisleriana, Rachmaninoff Corelli Variations and
Ravel la valse
Masterclass: 5pm, Sherman van Solkema Recital Hall
First prize winner of the Naumburg International Piano
Competition and the Concert Artist Guild International Competition,
Korean-American pianist/Soyeon Kate Lee/has been lauded by/The New
York Times/as a pianist with "a huge, richly varied sound, a
lively imagination and a firm sense of style," and by
the/Washington Post/for her "stunning command of the keyboard.ý
Highlights of recent seasons include appearances at the National
Gallery, Library of Congress, Gina Bachauer Concerts, Purdue
Convocations, Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on
tour, San Francisco Performances, Camerata Pacifica tour, Chamber
Music Chicago, and the Cleveland Art Museum. She was a member of
Lincoln Center Chamber Music Societyýs Bowers program, and is a
regular participant in numerous chamber music festivals including the
Great Lakes, Santa Fe and Music Mountain Chamber Music Festivals. Ms.
Lee has collaborated with conductors Carlos Miguel Prieto,/Rafael
Frühbeck de Burgos, Jahja Ling, and Jorge Mester with the London, San
Diego, Hawaii, Louisiana, Naples symphony orchestras among others.
She has commissioned works by prominent composers and has given
world premieres of works written by Frederic Rzewski, Marc-André
Hamelin, Alexander Goehr, Gabriela Lena Frank, Texu Kim, and Huang Ruo.
As a Naxos recording artist, her discography spans a wide range
of repertoire from two volumes of Scarlatti Sonatas, Liszt Opera
Transcriptions, two volumes of Scriabin, and Clementi Sonatas. Ms.
Leeýs recording of Re!nvented under the E1/Entertainment One (formerly
Koch Classics) label garnered her a feature review in the/Gramophone
Magazine/and the Classical Recording Foundationýs Young Artist of the
Year Award.
A second prize and Mozart Prize winner of the 2003 Cleveland
International Piano Competition and a laureate of the Santander
International Piano Competition in Spain, Ms. Lee has worked
extensively with Richard Goode, Robert McDonald, Ursula Oppens, and
Jerome Lowenthal. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Ms. Lee was
awarded the William Petschek Piano Debut Award at Lincoln Center and
the Arthur Rubinstein Award and received her Doctor of Musical Arts
from The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
In 2022, Soyeon Kate Lee joined the piano faculty at the
Juilliard School, and serves on the piano faculty at the Bowdoin
International Music Festival during the summers. She resides in New
York with her husband, pianist Ran Dank, and their two children, Noah
and Ella.
Location Information
Sherman van Solkema Recital Hall
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Contact Information
Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance
(616) 331-3484
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This event was added to the calendar by Bridgett Vanderhoof (vandebri@gvsu.edu) on Monday, December 18, 2023 and was last updated on Monday, January 8, 2024 at 11:10 a.m.
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