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ANGELA LEE, cello


Angela Lee has performed recitals in Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, Chicago's Cultural Center, The Phillip's Collection and Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Copenhagen's Nationalmuseet, the Berlin Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, and the South Bank Centre in London. A graduate of The Juilliard School and Yale School of Music, she is a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to study in London with 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. She is frequently invited to festivals including St. Petersburg’s Revelations, IMS at Prussia Cove, Taipei Summer Festival, Pontino Festival, La Musica, Banff, Marlboro Music Festival, Anneberg Festival, Chelsea Music Festival, Music Mountain, Mahler-Jihlava Festival, and Mainly Mozart collaborating with Nobuko Imai, Bruno Giuranna, Frans Helmerson, Isabelle Faust, Andras Schiff, Alexander Lonquich, Anthony Newman, Franco Petracchi, and members of the Beaux Arts Trio and Guarneri Quartet.

Her latest collaboration with organist Jonathan Dimmock will bring her to Festival Fano and Vallambrosa Organ Festival in Italy this summer. Using music to foster peace and goodwill, Angela Lee has made numerous humanitarian trips to the Philippines and former Yugoslavia. While on a U.N.-sanctioned tour of six war-torn cities throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina, she performed for American and NATO troops and displaced civilians.

As a founding member of The Lee Trio with her sisters, Angela Lee continues to perform in the States and abroad, most recently completing a tour to Romania. The Trio has given world premieres of works written for them by Nathaniel Stookey, Jane Antonia Cornish, Uljas Pulkkis, Philip Lasser, Laurence Rosenthal and Jerry Bilik. The Trio's recording of Jane Antonia Cornish's Duende was released on the Delos label in 2014 to critical acclaim. www.theleetrio.com