Since its critically acclaimed Wigmore Hall debut in 2002, The Lee Trio's "gripping immediacy and freshness" and "rich palette of tone colours" [The Strad] continue to move audiences and critics around the globe.
The Trio's awards include the Recording Prize at the Kuhmo International Chamber Music Competition in Finland and the Gotthard-Schierse-Stiftung Grant in Berlin for rising international artists. They have given recitals and masterclasses in cities from Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, San Francisco, New York and Toronto to London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Kiev, Cluj-Napoca and Leipzig. The Lee Trio has performed as soloists with orchestras such as the Shanghai Philharmonic, Kiev Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Shenzhen Symphony and the Macao Youth Symphony. Their tours of China have included recitals in Hong Kong, Macao, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Shanghai, at the Zhongshan Culture and Art Center, Hong Kong's City Hall Theatre and Lee Hysan Concert Hall, recordings for RTHK4, Hong Kong's classical broadcast radio, and a guest appearance on the televised program, Music of Friends.
The Lee Trio is passionate about working with and performing the music of living composers. As a recipient of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music Musical Grant, the Trio commissioned and premiered Nathaniel Stookey's Piano Trio No. 1 in 2009. Other works by Uljas Pulkkis, Philip Lasser, Laurence Rosenthal, Jerry Bilik, Julian Yu, Sylvie Bodorova and Richard Pantcheff have been given their world, American and European premieres by The Lee Trio. They served as the first Ensemble-in-Residence of the Chelsea Music Festival in New York City, giving the world-premiere performance of Jane Antonia Cornish's "Duende" in 2010 and releasing "Duende" on the Delos label in 2014 to critical acclaim. The Trio's recording of D. J. Sparr's "Lost in the Old South Tower" was recorded at Skywalker Sound and released on an album entitled Hard Metal Cantus on Innova Records in 2020.
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