Korean Artists Association UK

Sora Lee was born in South Korea in 1984. Her earliest violin training began with her mother, who was a violist, at the age of 6.

Throughout her childhood, she had numerous performance opportunities including concert of Mozart Violin Concerto No.4 in D with Jeonju Symphony Orchestra in 1996 at the age of 11 and also attending Eumyoun Summer Music Festival in Korea (http://www.eumyoun.com/).

One year after, she came to United Kingdom to study abroad where she attended schools in Oxfordshire. While still a junior and senior high school student, she studied with Rebecca Lee and Ginny Wray, gaining great achievements in musical areas. She was Leader of both her school orchestras and was awarded few Music Prizes. She was a member of Thames Valley Youth Orchestra, Oxfordshire, under the guidance of Michael Stinton where she also was 2nd Violin Leader. Attaining smart results enabled her to study at Trinity College of Music, London with Ann Hooley for 4 years and graduated July 2007.

Other than many internal-college-performance experiences where she has played variety of numerous repertoires, she has also performed at Asia House, London in October 2006 of Asian Festival: Chuseok, presented in association with Korean Artists Association in the UK.

Alongside as a freelance violinist performing in many venues, and the teacher of Violin, she is currently 2nd Violin Leader at Thames Philharmonia directed by Byung-Yun Yu. She is planning to study furthermore for Master of Music & Creative Economy at Kingston University in September 2008.

Sora Lee has passionate beliefs about the way in which music is taught to many people and led her to develop her career in both teaching and performance fields.

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