Yura Lee

Violinist/violist Yura Lee has performed with major orchestras including New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She has given recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. She is the recipient of a 2007 Avery Fisher Career Grant and was the only first prize winner awarded across four categories at the 2013 ARD Competition. Her CD Mozart in Paris, with Reinhard Goebel and the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, received the Diapason d’Or Award. As a chamber musician, she regularly takes part in the festivals of Seattle, Marlboro, Salzburg, Verbier, La Jolla, Caramoor, and others. Lee is currently a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, as both violinist and violist, and the Boston Chamber Music Society. She plays a Giovanni Grancino violin loaned to her through the Beares International Violin Society by generous sponsors.