Min Lee, Program Director
Min has been hailed by the International press as “Singapore’s poster girl of classical music”. Luminaries like Ruggiero Ricci have proclaimed her talent “more than remarkable...unbelievable.”
Min 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 with a Masters in Music.
Since then, she has blazed a trail performing at the forefront with some of the most prestigious orchestra in the world. Recent appearances include concert performances with the Philarmonia Orchestra of London, 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, Prague Radio Symphony, Auckland Symphony and the Russian National Orchestra, under the baton of highly acclaimed international conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Peter Oundjian and Mikhail Pletnev.
Through her performances, Min has helped to raise more that $5 million for charitable organizations such as the International Action for Aids, the Hong Kong Red Cross Society, NAC Gifted Young Musicians, and the Presidential Charities.
Min has also released 2 albums under the Universal Label: Debut Wieniawski with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Tchaikovsky/ Prokofieff with the Philharmonia Orchestra (London) and Vladimir Ashkenazy. |
Annie Lee, Director of Student Development
Annie Lee is the mentor behind the child prodigy Min Lee. She placed the first violin in Min’s hands at the age of two. A pupil of the late pedagogue, Mr Goh Soon Tioe, Annie developed violin pedagogy over her 12 year stay in the US and Europe. She has more than 25 years of teaching experience and has created successful violin programs in Methodist Girls’ School, Nanyang Primary School, and Rosyth Primary School. |
