Recital Seonhwa Lee

Performers

Seonhwa Lee → violoncello
Auguste Petkunaite → piano

Program

Emilie Mayer → Cello sonatas in D minor op. 38, C major, D major op. 47

Cellist and doctoral candidate Seonhwa Lee was born in Daejeon, South Korea, began her musical education at the age of four with piano and cello lessons and took singing lessons from the age of six. At the age of seven she won first prizes as a cellist at her first competition in South Korea and at the age of nine she won first prizes at a singing competition in her home town. She made her debut as a soloist at the age of eleven with Haydn's C major concerto in her home town.

Seonhwa Lee has won many prizes at international competitions in South Korea, Poland, Denmark and the USA and has given numerous concerts, including at Carnegie Hall in New York, as a soloist in the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra and as principal cellist with the Mannheim Philharmonic Orchestra. She was a scholarship holder of the Deutschlandstipendium and the Müller Foundation in Germany.

Seonhwa Lee completed her bachelor's degree at the Mannheim College of Music under Professor Michael Flaksman with top marks and honors in both the entrance examination and at graduation. She began her Master's studies with Professor Danjulo Ishizaka at the Dresden College of Music and continued at the Basel College of Music, where she successfully completed both the Master of Arts in Performance and the Master of Arts in Music Education. She also completed her concert exam with Professor Francis Gouton at the Mannheim College of Music.

She is currently completing her doctorate as part of the PhD "European Doctoral College for Musical Interpretation and Artistic Research" at the College of Music Freiburg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Natasha Loges and Prof. Elena Cheah.