Yesong Sophie Lee won First Prize at the 2016 Menuhin International Junior Violin Competition in London at the age of 12.
She has since been the youngest prize winner at the 2022 International Jean Sibelius Competition and received Salon di Virtuosi’s Charlotte White Career Grant. Lee has gone on to perform numerous concerts and recitals throughout the US and Europe.
As a soloist, Lee has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonia, Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre des Cameristi de la Scala, Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, and with the Richmond Symphony for their annual Gala concert, with violinist Joshua Bell.
Yesong is endorsed by Thomastik-Infeld Strings and performs on a Guarneri Del Gesu violin, Cremona c1725 which is on loan from The Ryuji Ueno Foundation and Rare Violins in Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative.
Special prizes
Award for the Best performance of a virtuosic work
$2,500Offered by Famille Rouleau et Morris & Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation
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