The Perlman Music Program presents Kristin Lee, violin, and Kwan Yi, piano, in a Stires-Stark alumni recital.
The program, presented via PMP from Home, will air starting March 4. It is part of a free series of performances by accomplished PMP students generously underwritten by Sidney S. Stark and the Stires-Stark Family Foundation.
Many of them now hold leadership positions among renowned orchestras and faculties.
In 2012, PMP inaugurated this recital series at the Clark Arts Center on the Shelter Island campus. However, during the pandemic, the presentation shifted to a virtual format.
Alumni recitals are released monthly on Friday afternoons. Next up, on March 25, is Haran Meltzer, cello.
You can also watch these past performances (follow links to learn about the performers):
- November 19, Matthew Lipman, viola, and Yi-Fang Huang, piano
- December 10, Randall Goosby, violin, and Zhu Wang, piano
- January 14, Nathan Meltzer, violin, and Jessica Osborne, piano
- February 18, Chase Park, cello
About Kristin Lee
Kristin Lee, a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician is a recipient of the 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, as well as a top prizewinner of the 2012 Walter W. Naumburg Competition and the Astral Artists’ 2010 National Auditions. She was recently appointed to the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as assistant professor of violin. She is the artistic director of Emerald City Music, a chamber music series she co-founded in 2015. It presents unique concert experiences, working to connect high-caliber classical music and the many diverse communities of Washington State’s Puget Sound region.
Lee is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, performing at Lincoln Center in New York and on tour with CMS throughout each season. She’s the principal artist of Camerata Pacifica in Santa Barbara, sitting as The Bernard Gondos Chair. She is also concertmaster of the Nu Deco Ensemble in Miami, Florida, She’s also a member of Steve Coleman’s Natal Eclipse, a hybrid chamber-jazz ensemble that explores the foundations of group improvisation and spontaneous composition.
Lee has also appeared in chamber music programs at Music@Menlo, La Jolla Festival, Medellín Festicámara of Colombia, the El Sistema Chamber Music festival of Venezuela, the Sarasota Music Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern of Germany, the Hong Kong Chamber Music Festival and the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, among many others.
Recent and upcoming highlights include performances presented by the San Francisco Symphony with Itzhak Perlman, Amarillo Symphony, Chamber Music Sedona, a tour with the Silk Road Ensemble, Music@Menlo, Parlance Chamber Concerts, Moab Music Festival, Town Hall Seattle, Lyra Music Festival, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Olympic Music Festival, North Carolina New Music Initiative, and the Leicester International Music Festival, as well as performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Camerata Pacifica.
Born in Seoul, Lee began studying the violin at 5, and within one year won First Prize at the prestigious Korea Times Violin Competition. In 1995, she moved to the United States and continued her musical studies under Sonja Foster. Two years later, she became a student of Catherine Cho and Dorothy DeLay in The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division. In January 2000, she was chosen to study with Itzhak Perlman after he heard her perform Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with Juilliard’s Pre-College Symphony Orchestra. Lee holds a Master’s degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Itzhak Perlman and Donald Weilerstein and served as an assistant teacher for Perlman’s studio as a Starling Fellow.
About Kwan Yi
Pianist Kwan Yi has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kimmel Center, Kennedy Center, Chicago Symphony Center, Mann Performing Arts Center, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Library of Congress, Metropolitan and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums, Großer Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunks, Auditorium du Louvre, Suntory Hall, and Seoul Arts Center.
Yi has appeared as a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, and the Brevard Festival Orchestra under the batons of Hans Graf, Julian Kuerti, and Mikhail Tartanikov. As a recitalist and masterclass instructor, he has completed residencies at Bowling Green State University, University of Georgia, and Michigan State University.
As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried, and Roberto Diaz on national tours and was invited to perform at the Kronberg, Ravinia, Trondheim, and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festivals and Carnegie Hall Presents, Curtis Presents, CIM Mixon Hall Masters, and Peoples’ Symphony Concert Series. He has recorded for FHR and Hänssler labels with violinist Itamar Zorman.
A recipient of many honors and prizes, Yi’s awards include the Mieczyslaw Munz Prize, the National Federation of Music Clubs Award, and prizes in the Sendai International Piano Competition.
Yi is a graduate of the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, and the Peabody Institute where he worked with Leon Fleisher and Robert McDonald. He currently serves as assistant professor of piano at the East Carolina University School of Music.
