MIN

BIOGRAPHY

Min Lee made her debut with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra when she was 12 at the inaugural President’s Young Performers Concert. At 14, she became the youngest student to be admitted for graduate studies at Yale University, where she was schooled by the late, eminent violinist Erick Friedman, himself a protégé of the legendary violinists, Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein. Both Heifetz and Milstein were the protégés of the legendary Russian violinist and pedagogue, Leopold Auer.

Min Lee graduated in 2000 at 17 and in that same year, she made her London debut at the Wigmore Hall followed by performances at the Royal Festival Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then, she was featured soloists in concerts with orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra (London), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the NHK, San Diego Symphony and the Russian National Orchestra among many others, under the baton of prominent conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Peter Oundjian, Jahja Ling and Mikhail Pletnev.

Min Lee’s discography includes albums with released under Universal Music Group, Debut Wieniawski, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra with Vladimir Ashkenazy.

A prolific fundraiser and youth ambassador for her favorite charities, Min Lee has raised, through her performances some $6 million over the years, Benefit concerts have included the Princess Diana Aids Benefit ($1m), the Red Cross Society in Hong Kong ($3m), Children with Renal Failure in China, Shanghai with the Russian National Orchestra ($250,000), Viva Foundation for children with cancer, The Business Times Budding Action for Aids, NAC Gifted Young Musicians, and the Presidential Charities. Through her performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy, she raised $200,000 for the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore.

In 2007, Min enrolled at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and graduated in 2010 with a Masters in Public Policy.

Happily married to entrepreneur Loh Lik Peng with 2 children, Min’s evolve from prodigy to artiste is much anticipated


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CHARITABLE CAUSES

Through her performances, Min has helped to raise more that $5 million for charitable organizations such as the International Action for Aids, the Hong Kong Red Cross Society, NAC Gifted Young Musicians, and the Presidential Charities. 

Shanghai for the Children with Renal Failure

Recently, she raised $250,000 in Shanghai for the Children with Renal Failure and through her performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy, she raised $200,000 for the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore .