Kristin Lee

A violinist of remarkable versatility and impeccable technique, Kristin Lee enjoys a vibrant career as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She is equally noted for her growing reputation in collaborations with various genres of music. A winner of Astral Artists’ 2010 National Auditions and a top prizewinner of the 2012 Walter W. Naumburg Competition, Ms. Lee has appeared as soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, New Mexico Symphony, Albany Symphony, Ural Philharmonic of Russia, Korean Broadcasting Symphony of Korea, and many others. She has appeared on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, the Metropolitan Museum, Steinway Hall’s Salon de Virtuosi, the Louvre Museum in Paris, and Korea’s Kumho Art Gallery. A continuing collaborator with Questlove, the drummer and front man for the Grammy Award-winning band The Roots, Ms. Lee appears on The Roots’ most recent CD Undun, and she appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Questlove’s experimental Shuffle Culture project. She is also the concertmaster of the groundbreaking Metropolis Ensemble, with whom she premiered Vivian Fung’s Violin Concerto, released on the Naxos label in September 2012. As a member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, she has upcoming engagements that include tours with CMS, debut recitals at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall and Florida’s Kravis Center, and debuts with the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra of China. Ms. Lee is curating a program that premieres at Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live in which she is commissioning composer/performers to write music for the violin and steelpan, guitar, theremin, and carnatic South Indian singing; the program will also be performed at New York’s (Le) Poisson Rouge and on St. Paul’s Liquid Music Series. Kristin Lee holds a Master’s degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Itzhak Perlman and Donald Weilerstein.