09. 02 (Wed) 7:30 PM
Seoul Arts Center, Industrial Bank of Korea Chamber Hall
Soyeon Kate Lee Piano Recital
Pianist Soyeon Kate Lee is the first woman of Asian descent to join the piano faculty at The Juilliard School. She gained international recognition after winning the Naumburg and Concert Artists Guild International Competitions.
Lee is a Naxos recording artist and recipient of the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year Award.
At the 2026 Hic et Nunc! Music Festival, she presents a Romantic program alongside the Asian premiere of a work by Paola Prestini, which she premiered in 2024.
Sponsored by Hyunok Kim, Sejong Soloists Board Member
TICKETS
R 50,000 KRW | S 30,000 KRW
*The programs are subject to change.
C. Debussy
La puerta del Vino
C. Debussy
Ce qu’à vu le vent d’ouest
C. Debussy
Minstrels
R. Schumann
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
I. Äußerst bewegt II. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch III. Sehr aufgeregt IV. Sehr langsam V. Sehr lebhaft VI. Sehr langsam VII. Sehr rasch VIII. Schnell und spielend
Paola Prestini
Mother Moon Songs (Asian Premiere)
S. Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet, Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 75
IV. The Young Maiden Julia V. Masks VI. Montagues and Capulets VIII. Mercutio X. Romeo and Juliet Before Parting
J. M. Ravel
La Valse
Soyeon Kate Lee
Piano
Soyeon Kate Lee
Piano
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.”
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, she is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she was awarded the William Petschek Piano Debut Award at Lincoln Center and the Arthur Rubinstein Award upon graduation, and received her Doctor of Musical Arts from The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
She was a member of Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society’s Bowers Program, and is a regular participant in numerous chamber music festivals including The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, 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.
In 2022, Soyeon Kate Lee joined the faculty at the Juilliard School, making her the first woman of Asian descent to join the illustrious piano faculty. She was an associate professor of music in piano at the Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music from 2014 to 2022, where she received the 2021 University of Cincinnati Mrs. A.B. “Dolly” Cohen Award for excellence in teaching.