Violinist Rachel Lee is one of today’s most captivating artists, and “already commands an impressive musical profile,” according to the Chicago Tribune. Noted for her compelling stage presence and a unique ability to “make the music sing” (The Baltimore Sun), as well as her commitment to a wide-ranging repertoire, she has made several important orchestral debuts in recent seasons, including performances with the Chicago, Saint Louis, Houston, and Seattle Symphony Orchestras.

Previous solo engagements have included appearances with the National Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, and the Aspen Sinfonia at the Aspen Music Festival. She has performed in Korea several times, including repeat engagements with the Seoul Philharmonic, the KBS Symphony under the direction of Dmitri Kitaenko, and a four-city tour of the country with the State Symphony Cappella of Russia.

Rachel made her European concerto debut in October 2006, performing the Sibelius Concerto with the Berlin Staatskapelle and Maestro Mikko Franck to an overwhelming response. Since then, European engagements have included the opening concert of the Graz Philharmonic’s 2007/2008 season, as well as debut recitals at the Verbier Festival and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival in 2008. Her European recital debut was made at the age of 15 on the Louvre recital series in Paris.

Rachel has also appeared in numerous recitals across the United States. She made her debut on the Kansas City Harriman-Jewell Discovery Series in February, and this past summer gave two pre-concert recitals at the Mostly Mozart Festival, performing at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. Other notable recitals have included the Ravinia Festival’s “Rising Stars” series, the Matinee Musicale series in Cincinnati, and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial series at the Chicago Cultural Center.

As a chamber musician, Rachel was invited to participate in the 2008 Moritzburg Festival in Germany, as well as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s “Chamber Music Marathon” in June 2006. She has also performed extensively at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute, which she attended for the past two summers.

Born in Chicago in 1988, Rachel began her violin studies at the age of four, and in 1996 moved to New York to study with the late Dorothy DeLay. At just nine years of age, she performed at the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations, and was the youngest musician selected to give a recital as part of the 1998 La Jolla Chamber Music Society’s Prodigy Series, on which occasion she was described as “a violinist of utmost stature, a performer with maturity beyond her years.”

Rachel has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Family Circle Magazine, and The Strad Magazine, as well as on radio and television, including a broadcast on PBS with Itzhak Perlman and an “American Masters” documentary about the Juilliard School. She has also appeared on the Disney Channel, performing in Avery Fisher Hall with Disney’s Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra, and performed at the 2000 Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

Rachel first played for Itzhak Perlman at the age of ten, and has been under his tutelage since that time. Her previous teachers have included Dorothy DeLay and Robert Mann, with whom she studied at the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School. In May 2010 she received a B.A. in English from Harvard University, and this year received a master’s degree, studying with Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory through its joint five-year program with Harvard College.