The Grand Duo lunchtime recital & Advanced Diploma Recital: Marisol Lee

1.The Grand Duo lunchtime recital

MARISOL LEE violin
MINJUNG BAEK piano

Monday 20 April 2015

Doors: 12.30pm
Concert: 1.00pm
Tickets £5

The exciting young duo from South Korea, Marisol Lee (violin) and MinJung Baek (piano) will perform:

Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Violin in A major, Op.12 No.2
Schubert Violin Sonata in A major, D.574 “Grand Duo”
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No.2 in D major, Op.94bis

Violinist Marisol Lee was born in Seoul. She attended YewonSchool and Seoul Arts High School, graduated with top marks, and entered Seoul National University at the top of her class. She transferred to Germany in Munich National College of Music and then she was awarded the “Dowager Viscountess Rothermere Scholarship” and "Violet Strutton Award" to enter the Royal Academy of Music London, and a scholarship from the Hattori Foundation.
Marisol has won many prizes in Germany, United Kingdom, andChina, including Max Rostal international competition, Windsor International String Competition, China international competition and more than a dozen competitions in Korea, she was also awarded the “Stennebruggen-Prize” which is awarded for the best soloist in the Carl Flesh Academy in Germany.

In 2011 Marisol was guest performer as the first musician of the New Year in Kumho Young Artist New Year＇s Concert Recital. She has also played as soloist with numerous international orchestras inUnited Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, China and Seoul among others. She has participated in a number of chamber music festivals and master classes. At present, Marisol is committed to a number of performance activities in Europe and Korea.
Her teachers have been Jong-Suk Lee and Sang-Hee Kwon in Korea and also Mi-Kyung Lee and Ingolf Turban in Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater, Munich. She currently studies with Maurice Hasson. Marisol Lee plays a violin "Giovanni Francesco Pressenda" on loan from the Royal Academy of Music, where she plans to follow her Artist Diploma with an Advanced Diploma in performance.

Pianist MinJung Baek studied at the prestigious Accademia pianistica di Imola in Italy with Leonid Margarius and Mannes college of Music in NYC with Jerome Rose before moving to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama on a full scholarship under the guidance of Ronan O’Hora. Since winningher first competition at the age of five in her native country, South Korea, she has won more than fifty Korean national competitions such as Wol-Eum, Cho-Sun Ilbo, Music Education News (Grand Prize), Eum-ak Chun-chu, Eum-Youn, Han-Kook Ilbo and, later, she also collected an impressive array of top prizes in international competitions, including Skokie Valley in USA, Giuliano Pecar, Ernesto Falla, Concorso Nuovi Orizzonti, Jacque Samuel, Pietro Argento, Rachmaninov and the European Beethoven Gold Medal in London (2012).
MinJung made her first public recital at the age of eight in Seoul, and her orchestra début aged 10 with Busan Philharmonic Orchestra playing the Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 as the winner of the young artist audition. Since then, sensitive touch, expressive playing and strong charismatic charm have led her to perform extensively throughout in USA (Steinway Hall in NYC, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Mixon Hall in Cleveland, Notre Shore Center for performing Arts), all major theatres in Italy, Ukraine, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Japan, Romania, Spain, Korea and UK and also has been broadcast on KBS, Rai, ITV, PBS, WQXR and the Ukraine national radio.
MinJung has also collaborated with prestigious orchestras around the world and within the UK, has performed recitals in major venues such as Wigmore Hall, Purcell room, Warwick Arts Centre, Benjamin Britten Theatre, Milton Court, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Barbican Hall and at City of London, Dartington Music and Brighton festivals.
In March 2015 she moved back to Seoul to take up a teaching position, which she holds alongside her performing career and is looking forward to giving her début concerts and masterclass in Edinburgh, Bangkok, Malaysia and Moscow in September.

Please note: being a lunchtime concert, the Club＇s bar and lounge will not be open before or after this performance.