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Musical Snapshot: YCA Pianist Nathan Lee

Jun 30, 2020 | 547 Hit
Meet the next generation of talented young Korean musicians taking the world's stage with Musical Snapshots! Presented by the Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. in partnership with Young Concert Artists (YCA), these short-form videos that combine personal interviews and original home performances. Read on to learn about the second featured artist, pianist Nathan Lee.
Musical Snapshots:
YCA Pianist Nathan Lee

Video Release: Tuesday, June 30
Presented in Partnership with Young Concerts Artists
 
Program
Interview & Home Concert
Adagio in B Minor, K.540 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Pianist Nathan Lee is a young artist who connects with audiences through a depth of musical expression well beyond his years. He was recently honored with the special Tabor Foundation Award at the 2019 Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland, and at the age of 15 won First Prize in the 2016 Young Concert Artists International Auditions as well as no fewer than 14 special concert prizes, plus the Mortimer Levitt Piano Chair of YCA.

Mr. Lee has already appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Buffalo Philharmonic on NPR’s From the Top, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle (NC), Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río in Mexico and Daejeon Philharmonic in Korea. Upcoming concertos include Mozart with the Savannah Symphony Orchestra. He made his New York debut at 16 in The Peter Marino Concert, opening the YCA Series at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, with additional support from the Paul A. Fish Memorial Fund. The Korean Concert Society Prize sponsored Mr. Lee’s sold-out, critically acclaimed Kennedy Center debut in Washington, D.C., a co-presentation of YCA and Washington Performing Arts. He appears on the YCA Encores Series at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York this season, in a program that includes Young Concert Artists composer Chris Rogerson’s ‘Til It Was Dark.

In recital this season, Nathan Lee’s schedule includes engagements for the California Center for the Arts Escondido, Grand County (CO) Concert Series, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Saint Vincent College (PA), and the Arts Council of Moore County (NC). An audience favorite at festivals, he has appeared at the Usedom Music Festival in Germany, Verbier Festival Academy, and Pianofest in the Hamptons.

Nathan Lee began playing piano at age six and made his orchestral debut at age nine. He is from the Seattle area, where he studied with Sasha Starcevich. Mr. Lee has also worked with Craig Sheppard, and regularly works with YCA alumni Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Ilana Vered. He currently studies at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Robert McDonald. For more, visit him YCA profile.

Nathan Lee's Musical Snapshots video releases Tuesday, June 30. Click below to watch, or find it on the KCCDC and YCA YouTube channels:

Musical Snapshots is a virtual concert series presented in partnership with the Young Concert Artists that helps introduce next-generation Korean musicians. During a time of limited in-person concerts and audience interaction, the Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. hopes to engage classical music fans and performers remotely by introducing excellent Korean artists who actively perform in the United States. In doing do, the program aims to promote hope and healing during a time of pandemic and struggle.
 
Program Schedule

June 16: YCA Violinist SooBeen Lee
June 30: YCA Pianist Nathan Lee
July 14: YCA Violist Jinsun Hong & Omer Quartet
July 28: YCA Pianist DoHyun Kim
Young Concert Artists is a New York City-based non-profit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting the careers of talented young classical musicians from all over the world. The YCA competition, founded in 1961, allows artists from all over the world to compete as individuals or in a chamber group; winners perform in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and are provided an artistic manager who broadly supports the artist through concert engagements in the United States and abroad, publicity materials, promotion, and career development. Notable past winners include violinists Pinchas Zukerman, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, and Chee-Yun; pianists Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Richard Goode, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Christopher O'Riley, Ruth Laredo and Olli Mustonen; flautists Paula Robison, Mimi Stillman, and Eugenia Zukerman; the Tokyo, St. Lawrence, and Borromeo String Quartets; violist Antoine Tamestit; cellists Ronald Thomas, Fred Sherry and Carter Brey; trumpeter Stephen Burns; and sopranos Marvis Martin and Dawn Upshaw. For more, visit www.yca.org or on Facebook and YouTube at @YoungConcertArtists.

Questions? Contact Performing Arts Manager Hyemee Baik: hmbaik@mofa.go.kr or (202) 587-6152. Video content and photos courtesy of Young Concert Artists, Nathan Lee’s YouTube channel. Video editing by Yun Oh of O&K Production.


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