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 Gould

 Studio 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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