Yun Lee, Violin

Musician

Yun has been one of Taiwan’s top young violinists, winning the top international and national competitions for several years. Recent competition experiences include: 37th Chimei Foundation Art Awards, 2026-2027 National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Talent Excellence Program, advancing to the semi-final round (top 6 candidates) of the 2024 Princess Astrid Violin Competition in Norway, 1st place in both Vienna Mozart Competition and Cleveland Institute of Music Annual Milhaud Competition, The Dr. Jerome Gross Prize in Violin from the Cleveland Institute of Music, 2nd place in the 2021 New York International Artists Competition, 2015 National Taiwan Student Music Competition top prize in violin solo, and 1st place in the 2013 Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld 1st International String Competition in Hong Kong. She’s also the first person in HSNU school history who won twice in the School Concerto Competition in both 2015 and 2017, and the youngest violinist who obtained the 2018 Young Talent Cultivation Program by Taipei City Symphony Orchestra.

As a passionate chamber music performer and orchestra player, Yun has collaborated and shared stages with many artists including Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Phillip Setzer, Todd Phillips, James Dunham, and Margaret Batjer, and regularly performs with New Asia Chamber Music Society in New York City. She received the top prizes from chamber music competitions as a member of Kyklos Quartet including 2nd prize in both 2022 WDAV chamber music competition and Glass City competition, and quarter finalist in the 2022 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. Yun has been invited to many prestigious festivals including Pacific Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, Taipei Music Academy and Festival, New York String Orchestra Seminar, Heifetz International Music Institute, and 2015 Summit Music Festival (Aaron Rosand Intensive Program).

Yun recently received her Master’s in Music degree as a recipient of the Juilliard Scholarship and Irene Diamond Fellowship studying with Joel Smirnoff at The Juilliard School. She also completed her Bachelor’s in Music degree as a recipient of the Starling Foundation full scholarship studying with Jaime Laredo, Jan Sloman and Malcolm Lowe at Cleveland Institute of Music. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree as teaching assistant at Stony Brook University with Phil Setzer, Arnaud Sussmann and Hagai Shaham.

Orchestras that she had cooperated with as a soloist include New Arts Symphony Orchestra, TSO (Taipei Symphony Orchestra), HSNUSO (HSNU Symphony Orchestra), 3E Youth Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and The Sun Taipei Youth Orchestra. Upcoming concerts include collaborations with National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra and New Arts Symphony Orchestra.