Shannon Lee – violin

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This week in Japan featured the Sendai Classical M

This week in Japan featured the Sendai Classical Music Festival, with their amazing staff in green (and pink)!! Thank you for having me! 💐

I was so happy to play with the Sendai Philharmonic again, the Sibelius concerto with conductor Shurihito Matsumoto, and to play Dvořák's 2nd piano quartet together with Tomoshiro Yoshioka, Daisuke Inobe, and Yuko Nakamichi.

It was also beautiful to visit Matsushima islands with my SIMC host family, and catch a bit of kabuki in Tokyo!

@sendaiphil_official @canada.council @conseilartscan

It was my first time performing in Hong Kong 🌞

It was my first time performing in Hong Kong 🌞 thank you to the Cong Quartet for inviting me, and for the chance to play wonderful pieces by Schubert together, also with Chau Lok-Ping! 🎹

Also got to visit with family on my dad's side 💜

Looking forward to concerts in Japan today and tomorrow as part of the Sendai Classical Music Festival!

@congquartet @lok_ping_chau @canada.council @conseilartscan

I'm very excited❗🤸 for these upcoming perform

I'm very excited❗🤸 for these upcoming performances in:

• Amsterdam — Shostakovich & Fauré piano quintets with the @chianti.ensemble
• Hong Kong (where my dad is from!💟) — Schubert Rondo with the @congquartet & Schubert Fantasie with pianist @lok_ping_chau
• Sendai — Dvořák's 2nd piano quartet at Sendai Classical Music Festival; and Sibelius concerto with the Sendai Philharmonic @sendaiphil_official
• NY & Philadelphia — violin+violin/viola duo recitals with Luosha Fang @luosha_violinviola, including works by Prokofiev, Saariaho, Martinů, Takemitsu, and @gusev.arseniy

It would be fantastic to see you there!! 🥂🌊

I am discovering such a wonderful and welcoming pa

I am discovering such a wonderful and welcoming palette of colors in this powerful Italian violin made in 1902 by Enrico Rocca. Thank you so much to the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank for their support and the opportunity to play this instrument for the next three years! @canada.council @conseilartscan #instrumentbank #banquedinstruments

Directed a summer program for the first time, call

Directed a summer program for the first time, called Chamber Music Perspectives Workshop, in Plano, Texas - a week-long gathering for young string players to get to know each other through chamber music and composition.

At this pilot workshop, five talented young musicians (ranging from ages 12-16) put on a truly impressive show of their solo pieces, original compositions (!), and a variety of trios and quintets, including Boccherini's Fandango from the String Quintet in D major! It was really special to witness how the students learned to play together and supported each other through the week, how they made decisions about their own music, and to see their facial expressions after performing their own pieces for the first time!

Big thanks to the synergetic composers' team Julián Fueyo @julianfueyo and Arseniy Gusev @gusev.arseniy , for guiding the students in their writing process; violinist Clara Kim @kalara_kk for helping with the trios, pianist Yurie Iwasaki @iwasaki.yurie for collaborating with them in their solo repertoire, and Kawai Piano Gallery @kawaipianogallerydallas for graciously hosting all the rehearsals and the concert!

In creating this workshop I thought back to my former teacher Mr. Sloman's summer institute in Dallas (TIFS), where I met many other young musicians in the DFW area and had wonderful experiences with chamber music. I also was inspired by Creative Dialogue @creativedialogueworld , an incredible program originally conceived by Anssi Karttunen, Kaija Sariaaho, and Magnus Lindberg, bringing together young performers and composers in small groups every year.

Congratulations to the workshop participants, and hope we can do something like this again next summer!

A snippet of Three Madrigals by Bohuslav Martinů

A snippet of Three Madrigals by Bohuslav Martinů with Luosha Fang, violinist and violist extraordinaire 🤸

Luosha and I met at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia almost ten years ago, and recently we've been cooking up some duo programs whenever we catch each other in Amsterdam or NYC. We will have our first recitals this October in New York and Philadelphia, starting with the 14th of October at Bard College!

"a cricket sings out on a stone" is a song I wrote

"a cricket sings out on a stone" is a song I wrote earlier this year for mezzo soprano, alto flute and piano. We made a recorded performance of it with beautiful and enthusiastic collaborators Femke Hulsman and Elise Tossens!! And (rather last minute) I made an effort at the piano.

Four haikus by the Japanese poet Chiyo-ni:

unfinished dream -
a chrysanthemum blooms
in the tatami room

a hundred gourds
from the heart
of one vine

moonlit night -
a cricket sings
out on a stone

the first mists -
one mountain after another
unveiled

(translated by Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi)

I love learning about composing, although it's very challenging! I am thankful for all the encouragement from my composition teacher at CvA Willem Jeths and many friends along the way!!

The picture is by Zao Wou-Ki in 1982.

A tribute/memorial concert for Jan Sloman is takin

A tribute/memorial concert for Jan Sloman is taking place in Cleveland on the evening of Tuesday April 11th (which just so happens to be the day after his birthday). It's a special program ranging from solos and duos to quartets and large ensemble, featuring and organized by his students at the Cleveland Institute of Music. I am really glad to be a part of it and hope to see many of you there!!

Open to the public and also will be streamed online at http://www.cim.edu/concerts-events/jan-sloman-memorial-concert

Sonata for violin and piano by Sergei Slonimsky (1

Sonata for violin and piano by Sergei Slonimsky (1932-2020)

Excerpts from each movement with Arseniy Gusev, piano

Last winter Arseniy and I read this sonata by his former composition teacher. I had never heard Slonimsky's music before, but the language was striking. In the second movement he has a free and unique way of writing rhythm; and for the chords plucked inside the piano, the notes can be different in each performance, creating surprisingly fantastic colors every time!

We are working on a special adventurous program now, stay tuned ! 🪐

On the 9th of March in Flaine: Schubert Fantasie w

On the 9th of March in Flaine: Schubert Fantasie with pianist Daniël Kramer, and the Rondo in A major with the Cong Quartet!!

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Posted @withregram • @congquartet ✨We are happy to announce that we are the winner of 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓺𝓾𝓮 à 𝓕𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓮’s artistic residency this year! 🇫🇷

The residency will bring us back to the 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒖𝒎 for their Classical winter week from March 1st to the 12th, 2023! 🚠🚡

We will give three concerts on 🗓️March 5th, 7th and 9th, all at 8:30pm, including a concert of our “Schubertiade” series with two special guests, violinist 🎻 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗲 (@shannonleeviolin ) and pianist 🎹 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗞𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿 (@danielkramerpianist )

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This CD was released today! 🥳 I loved putting

This CD was released today! 🥳

I loved putting together this program, recording and performing with the incredible Jessica Osborne!!! @xylinathepianist We have played together for several years and it is always rewarding.

Thank you so much to SIMC and fontec for all their hard work and invaluable support!

It was also special to play in Japan an early piece by Tōru Takemitsu, whom my dear teacher Ida Kavafian introduced me to at Curtis. Distance de fée (妖精の距離) was inspired by, and shares its title with, an imaginative poem by Shuzo Takiguchi.

https://fontec1971.thebase.in/items/70993588

At Vera's Voorspeelklas, about to play Mozart's so

At Vera's Voorspeelklas, about to play Mozart's sonata in G major (K.379, so gorgeous!!) on gut strings, with Maurits Koelmans at the fortepiano. At the edges, animated Vera Beths and the tail of her dog Bobby. Thanks to Daniel Kramer for the photo :)

What luck that my electrical/software engineering

What luck that my electrical/software engineering parents brought me to play for Jan Mark Sloman in the new millennium, when I was 8 years old! I studied with him in his back house (and sometimes front house) in Dallas until I went to college, and we had lessons again these past four years through the Cleveland Institute of Music.

I learned voraciously from him even though I was unbearably shy. He would sit down with me and plan together a schedule of repertoire that I could work on, and with his monthly home concerts I had a welcoming outlet to perform something new each time. He believed in me so much that it was near embarrassing, but it also pushed me to see what I was capable of. By the time I was 16 he had taken me on adventures to record a CD (on his fiddle) at Skywalker Ranch, to study for a summer in China, to play the Sibelius concerto with orchestra in Germany. He told me stories about the music world, and soon I became part of what had just sounded like fairy tales and got to see these people and places in real life.

I saw how he directed TIFS, where I had some of my most rewarding chamber music experiences; and how he taught other violinists (including my sister) as I became often his teaching assistant, at the Meadowmount and Heifetz summer programs. He didn't want to tell how exactly to phrase every note, but rather wanted to let everyone develop their own instinct. He encouraged us to practice (slowly and correctly) but also to be richer in our music-making through other art and life experiences, had a terrific bullshit filter and made everyone laugh.

He was always there for me, as my mentor, teacher, coach and violin uncle, and it's incredible how many people he impacted.

With endless love and admiration

Having fun warming up before recording in Sendai.

Having fun warming up before recording in Sendai.

Jessica Osborne, piano 🔥
From Bartók's second sonata for violin and piano in C major

We recorded everything in two days with the team from fontec, and then we had the recitals in Sendai and Tokyo

#fontec #simc #仙台 #sendaiinternationalmusiccompetition 📷 @princesskana_pink

With my persevering and talented studio (both in r

With my persevering and talented studio (both in real life and online), which I adopted at @heifetzmusic this summer, together with the inimitable @hanbeilin at the piano. It was a joy to teach them all ✨☕🌈 !!

#heifetz2022

I'm moving to Amsterdam!! (in September) For an ar

I'm moving to Amsterdam!! (in September)
For an artist certificate program at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Vera Beths.
So excited to be going to Europe again! I haven't been in Amsterdam since 2019 (when this photo was taken). Any tips on finding a place to live?

My other wonderful teacher at CIM, but we go back

My other wonderful teacher at CIM, but we go back many more years...
Here's Mr. Sloman and me, from an earlier chapter ➡️⏩
at his program The Institute For Strings (TIFS)
👻

I will miss so many people in Cleveland, especiall

I will miss so many people in Cleveland, especially my wonderful teacher Jaime Laredo. Here is us after one of my final recitals at CIM

Played with the @arsymphony back in 2008 — very h

Played with the @arsymphony back in 2008 -- very happy to be here again with Tchaikovsky and @andrew.crust ! FYI in-person tickets also give access to post concert streaming.

from Bartok's first sonata, a couple weeks ago

from Bartok's first sonata, a couple weeks ago

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