Ariel Lee

Violin

Ariel Seung Hyun Lee, born in Seoul, South Korea, is currently pursuing the degree of Doctoral of Musical Arts in Violin Performance at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University, with a full-ride doctoral scholarship. She is under the tutelage of Kathleen Winkler, and also serves as the Benjamin Armistead Shepherd Teaching Fellow at the university. She received her Bachelor's and Master’s degrees at the Juilliard School, under the tutelage of Li Lin, and as an avid chamber and orchestral musician, she has served the position of concertmaster in the Juilliard Orchestra and the Verbier Festival Orchestra. She is a former prize winner of the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition London, the WDAV’s Young Chamber Musician’s Competition and the New York Concerti Sinfonietta Concerto Competition. She is a current fellow of the Young Artist Program at Houston’s DACAMERA, and her passion for expanding the classical music audience leads her to participate in many community engagement programs. She has recently performed with the London City Philharmonic and the Morocco Philharmonic, on the “Kubelik” Stradivarius 1687, generously loaned by the Shepherd School.