Jehye Lee

Jehye Lee, born 1986 in Seoul/South Korea, began playing the violin at the age of seven. After studying with Nam-Yun Kim at the Korean National University of Arts in her native Seoul, where she took her bachelor’s degree, she earned a master’s degree in performance with Miriam Fried at New England Conservatory, Boston. She then moved to Germany in 2010. While studying at Munich University of Music she founded the Trio Gaon, advised by Christoph Poppen and Julius Berger. Since then she has made a name for herself throughout Asia, Europe and the United States as a soloist and chamber musician.

Among her many awards and distinctions are a first prize and the audience and chamber music prizes at the Leopold Mozart Violin Competition in Augsburg (2009) and the third prize and chamber music prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in St. Petersburg (2011), this being the climax of her career at the time. She also received prizes from the Tibor Varga International Violin Competitiion in Sion, the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition and the Pablo Sarasate Violin Competition in Pamplona.

She has been invited to many chamber music festivals, including those in Lockenhaus and Ravinia. In 2013 she became the youngest concertmistress in the history of the Augsburg Philharmonic. Today Jehye Lee concertises in the world’s great concert halls, such as the Seoul Arts Center, Dvořák Hall in Prague’s Rudolfinum, the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Grand Théâtre in Bordeaux and Jordan Hall in Boston. 

Since 2014, she has headed the second violins in the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. 

2010-2012, she studied at Kronberg Academy with Ana Chumachenco. Her studies were funded by the Gingko scholarship.