SONIA LEE

About

Sonia Lee

Violinist Sonia Lee, a Detroit

native, made her concerto debut

with the Buffalo Philharmonic

while still in high school and

shortly after began her studies at

The Juilliard School, where her

teachers included Paul Kantor

 and Dorothy Delay. While still

an undergraduate, Sonia won an

audition with the Toronto

Symphony and was promoted

to Principal Second

Violinist the following year.

Sonia has also appeared as concerto

 soloist with the New York

Chamber Orchestra at the 92nd

Street Y. the Toronto Symphony,

the Saginaw Bay Symphony, the

Grosse Pointe Symphony and

the Michigan Sinfonietta.

 

Also active as a chamber musician,

Sonia has concertized across the

U.S., Canada and in Europe.

She was a featured artist at the

CBC Glenn GouldStudio with

Marc-Andre Hamelin, Amanda

Forsyth, and Martin Beaver and

performed with the AVANTI

Saraste Chamber Winds and

Strings, at the Scarab Club,

on the Cranbrook Artist Series and

the Schoolcraft Recital Series.

 

Sonia Lee is a dedicated violin

pedagogue, teaching privately and

coaching members of the Detroit

Symphony Orchestra's Civic

Youth Ensembles Honors Program.

Many of her students have gone on

to be accepted at top tier schools

of music and conservatories,

win positions with major

orchestras and place in

international competitions.

 

Sonia Lee has also received the

2010 Best Film Music award for

Raised Alone directed by Sam Kadi.

She has written compositions which

 premiered at concerts with The

Detroit Song Collective, her new

music trio, Lumino at Trinosophes

and has recorded for Gorfaine

 Schwartz’s Robert Duncan for ABC’s

 The Castle and The Gates, among

many other tv and film projects

 including The Armenian Trilogy by

 Dan Yessian and Hope Dies Last by

 Alexandra Du Bois, commissioned by

 the Detroit Chamber Winds and

Strings and David Jackson,

Trombonist, with premieres

performed at the DIA for Ida

Kavafian, and performed by Sonia

Lee at the Macomb Center. Sonia is

 devoted to composing new caprices

 for modern violin playing and new

 cadenzas for the standard

repertoire. Sonia’s works have been

 also featured at the 2018 Winter

 Olympic Games in PyeongChang

 featuring the Team USA Ice

Dancers, Madison Chock and Evan

Bates’s Free Dance Program,

Imagine inspired by John Lennon,

where she recorded string

arrangements with fellow Detroit

 artists, Singer, Olivia Dear,

Producers and Composers: Mark

Heckert, Mike Mullinks, Bryan

Reilly, and Steve Saputo. Sonia can

 also be heard on the Hail to the

Victors & Hail to the Frontline

Health Workers University of

Michigan Hospital for Michigan

 Medicine courtesy of Yessian Music

 with DSO cellist Una O’Riordan.

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