Artistry in Action: Piano Masters Series—Soyeon Kate Lee

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Tuesday / April 22, 2025 / 8:00 p.m. (EDT)

Seully Hall

8 Fenway, Floor 4

Boston

02215

United States

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Soyeon Kate Lee in a long blue dress posing on the floor near a piano.

Winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition and the Concert Artists Guild Award, Korean American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee enjoys a thriving career as a soloist and chamber musician. Deeply musical and charismatic, she is a piano professor at the Juilliard School, and a frequent performer with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Piano Masters Series is artistically directed by Michael Lewin and part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Artistry in Action series.

Program Information

Repertoire

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Barcarolle, op. 60

ROBERT SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana—Phantasien für das Pianoforte
I. Äußerst bewegt (Extremely animated)
II. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch (Very inwardly and not too quickly)
III. Sehr aufgeregt (Very agitated)
IV. Sehr langsam (Very slowly)
V. Sehr lebhaft (Very lively)
VI. Sehr langsam (Very slowly)
VII. Sehr rasch (Very fast)
VIII. Schnell und spielend (Fast and playful)

—INTERMISSION—

PAOLA PRESTINI: “Mother Moon Songs” (2023)

JOSEF HAYDN: Fantasia in C Major

CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Three Preludes
La puerta del Vino
Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest
Minstrels

ALEXANDER SCRIABIN: Fantasy in B Minor

Welcome

The Boston Conservatory Piano Masters Series is a popular and unique piano series, presenting a diverse and international array of world-class pianists in rare Boston recital appearances and master classes. It allows Boston music-lovers to hear these great artists perform solo recitals in an intimate venue, for a nominal cost, and to enjoy their fascinating master classes with talented Conservatory students the following day, free of charge. We welcome you to join us for these wonderful concerts!

—Michael Lewin, Artistic Director

About the Artist

Soyeon Kate Lee, piano, won first prize at the Naumburg International Piano Competition and the Concert Artist Guild International Competition. She 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.”

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 Society’s Bowers program, and is a regular participant in numerous chamber music festivals, including the Great Lakes, Santa Fe, and Music Mountain festivals. Lee has collaborated with conductors Carlos Miguel Prieto, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jahja Ling, and Jorge Mester, with the London, San Diego, Hawaii, Louisiana, and Naples symphony orchestras, among others.

She has commissioned works by prominent composers and has given world premieres of works written by Frederic Rzewski, Paola Prestini, 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, including two volumes of Scarlatti sonatas, Liszt opera transcriptions, two volumes of Scriabin, and Clementi sonatas. Lee’s recording Re!nvented, under the E1/Entertainment One (formerly Koch Classics) label, garnered her a feature review in Gramophone Magazine, as well as the Classical Recording Foundation’s 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, Lee 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. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her major mentors and teachers have been Richard Goode, Julian Martin, Robert McDonald, Jerome Lowenthal, and Ursula Oppens.

In 2022, Lee joined the piano faculty at the Juilliard School. She also 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.

About the Series

Piano Masters Series is artistically directed by Michael Lewin and part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Artistry in Action series. The Artistry in Action series celebrates exceptional artists and initiatives that exemplify Boston Conservatory’s core values of excellence, innovation, and community engagement. Hosted by the Conservatory’s Music Division, Artistry in Action brings together the school’s prestigious and long-standing Piano Masters Series, String Masters Series, and Chamber Series with exciting new programming for winds, faculty recitals, and ensemble in residences. Learn more and view upcoming Artistry in Action events.

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