Min Lee: String queen

min@min-lee.com

I've been raising funds for various charities since I was five years old. It's something that means a lot to me. Over the years, I've raised close to $5.5 million and I hope it's just the beginning.

Stravinsky’s The Fairy’s Kiss
Tales from the Ballet and Opera
Victoria Concert Hall
Min Lee/Albert Tiu

Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Mostly Mozart Barbican, London
Conductor: Peter Oundjian

Hong Kong Sinfonietta,
Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall
Conductor: Yip Wing-sie

Malaysia Airlines Master Series
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Adelaide Town Hall
Conductor: Nicholas Milton

Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Hong Kong
Conductor: Shui Lan

The Temasek Ensemble
Singapore Conference Hall
Artistic Leader: Pravel Prantl

Violin Recital, Methodist Girls’ School Building Fund
Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel, Singapore
Min Lee/Pravel Prantl

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Town Hall

Soloist Min Lee impresses with considerable technical accomplishment and focus in her performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.

Her persuasive and lyrical account of the slow movement is undoubtedly the high point.
Rodney Smith

The Advertiser

Wigmore Hall
The violinist Lee Huei Min, ably partnered by the experienced Gordon Back, brought admiration for her tone and a positive approach at her Wigmore Hall debut…the audience greatly enjoyed the glitter of Waxma’s Carmen Fantasy.

Geoffrey Crankshaw |
Musical Opinion, London

Gordon Back
Recital Reviews

Shanghai, Beijing, Malaysia, Singapore

“A thorough mastery of her instrument, drawing from it a warm rich tone, vast dynamic contrast and a myriad shades of expression.

Brahms was played with a mature understanding of styles, with no overdoing of rubatos so that when the occasion called for a really big one, the effect was miraculous.

The rapport with pianist Gordon Back was impeccable.

Wieniawski’s Faust Fantasy and Waxman’s Carmen Fantasy were tossed off with uncanny ease. ”

The Arts Magazine

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Winston-Salem Symphony

“An absolutely spectacular performance of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto…

Min delivered rippling passages as if they were child’s play, and combined this phenomenal virtuosity with extremely sensitive musicianship.

Her playing was on a level to which all
great musicians aspire.”

Bob Waters
Winston-Salem Journal, NC, USA

She is the best violinist!

Min Lee started playing the violin at the age of two and gave her first public performance at five. At the age of 14, Min enrolled at Yale University , where she was schooled by the late, eminent violinist Erick Friedman, himself a protégé of Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein. She graduated in 2000, at 17.

Min has recently appeared in concerts with the Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, the NHK, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, San Diego Symphony, and the Russian National Orchestra, under the baton of conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Peter Oundjian and Mikhail Pletnev.

Mozart
Concerto No 3, G major, KV 216
Concerto No 4, D major KV 218
Concerto No 5, A major, KV 219
Rondo in C minor

Beethoven
Sonata No 1, op. 12,
Sonata No 5, F-major, ‘Spring’, op. 24
Sonata No. 7, C minor op. 30/II
Sonata No 8, G major op.30

Saint-Saens
Sonata No 1 in D minor, op 75
Havanaise
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

Mozart
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major KV305
Sonata No 36 in E flat major KV 380
Sonate in e minor KV 304

"More than remarkable… unbelievable "

– Rugierro Ricci

Philharmonia Orchestra, Corn Exchange, Bedford
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

“A breathtaking and phenomenal performance, with emotion and maturity beyond her years … Min has that something extra, music that touches the heart. It is all so rare, in somebody so young.”

-Margaret Campbell,
Contributor to the The Strad, and the author "Great Violinists"

"Singapore must be proud to claim this rising young star as her own… she is one of the gifted young violin luminaries among the vanguard leading the march of violin art into the 21st century"

– Dr Henry Roth, critic for The Strad

“Ms Lee is one of the
most astoundingly gifted violinist. It has been my pleasure to meet and hear in my 25 years of teaching and 50 years of performing as a concert violinist.

Probably, a more accurate definition of her talent is approaching "genius", a word, as a former student myself of Nathan Milstein and protégé of Jascha Heifetz, I do not use lightly"

– Erick Friedman, Yale University