Owen Lee

Location:
CINCINNATI, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Classical / Alternative / Rock
Site(s):
Label:
Boston Records
Type:
Indie
Double bassist Owen Lee has earned acclaim as a soloist, chamber musician and since 1996, at the age of 26, as Principal Bass of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Lee is heard regularly as a soloist with orchestras including the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Paavo Jarvi and Jesus Lopez-Cobos, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under John Harbison, and the New World Symphony under Michael Tilson-Thomas in Miami and on tour to New York's Lincoln Center.
Mr. Lee's prizes in competitions include First Prize at the 1995 International Society of Bassists Competition and Fourth Prize at the 1992 Irving M. Klein International String Competition in San Francisco.
Mr. Lee has recorded the Misek Sonata No.2 and Bach Suites No.3 and No.5 for
Boston Records. Mr. Lee can also be heard on all of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's numerous recordings for Telarc since 1996, most notably the prominent bass solos in Prokofiev's Lt. Kije Suite, Shostakovich's 15th Symphony, Mahler's 10th Symphony and Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.
Mr. Lee's extensive international chamber music experience includes three summers as the bassist of the Marlboro Festival. While there, he performed with such artists as Richard Stoltzman, Midori, Nobuko Imai, Bruno Canino, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and members of the Beaux Arts Trio, Guarneri Quartet and Juilliard Quartet. He also collaborated with composers Gyorgy Kurtag, Leon Kirchner and Richard Danielpour preparing performances of those composers' works.
Mr. Lee has also performed with the Tokyo String Quartet on tour to Mexico, the Miami and Miro Quartets, Andre Watts, Yefim Bronfman, John Browning, Jaime Laredo, Ida Kavafian, Eugenia Zukerman, the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, New York Chamber Soloists, Vermont Mozart Festival, Mainly Mozart Festival, Ojai Festival, Chamber Music L.A. Festival, and on tour throughout China.
In addition to his performing career, Mr. Lee teaches at Indiana University and Northern Kentucky University, and has taught masterclasses at Curtis, Juilliard, Yale, National Orchestral Institute, New World Symphony and Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts.
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