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Angela Lee Since giving her Carnegie Hall debut in 1994, Angela Lee's "amazing finesse, control and coloration" [San Francisco Chronicle] has been celebrated with recitals at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and Victor Borge Hall in New York, Chicago's Cultural Center, The Phillip's Collection and Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Copenhagen's Nationalmuseet and the Purcell Room at South Bank Centre in London. She has soloed with orchestras in the U.K., Brazil, Asia and the United States and has performed at festivals worldwide including St. Petersburg's Revelations, Chautauqua, Marlboro, La Musica and Anneberg. An important highlight of Angela Lee's career was a U.N.-sanctioned tour of six war-torn cities throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina. As chamber musician, she has collaborated with such artists as Bruno Giuranna, Frans Helmerson, Nobuko Imai, Cho-Liang Lin, Anthony Newman, Franco Petracchi and Andras Schiff. She is dedicated to working with and performing the music of today's most eminent composers, among them Lukas Foss, Aaron Jay Kernis, Tania León, Yehudi Wyner and Per Nørgård. Ms. Lee has also worked alongside Ed Asner and Cherry Jones as the featured cellist in Harris Yulin's production of Don Juan in Hell by George Bernard Shaw. She is a founding member of The Lee Trio with her sisters, violinist Lisa Lee and pianist Melinda Lee Masur. The Trio, which won top prizes in the Zinetti (Italy) and Kuhmo (Finland) International Chamber Music Competitions, gave its debut in London's Wigmore Hall in 2002 and performs regularly in Europe and throughout the United States. A graduate of The Juilliard School and Yale School of Music, Angela Lee began cello lessons at age five at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Irene Sharp. Her honors and awards include a Fulbright scholarship to study in London with the late William Pleeth, a grant from the Foundation for American Musicians in Europe, the Jury Prize in the Naumburg International Cello Competition, and a cello performance fellowship from The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Angela Lee plays on a Nicolo Gagliano cello dated 1762 from Naples. She makes her home in San Francisco with her husband Paul and their children Schuyler and Ava. O1C Performances: Elizabeth Prior Runnicles, Avi Downes, Angela Lee and Rene Mandel |
