Daniel Lee (cellist)

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Daniel Lee (* 1980 in Seattle ) is an American cellist of Korean origin.

Lee had cello lessons from Richard Aaron from the age of six . At the age of eleven he became the youngest student of Mstislav Rostropovich at the Curtis Institute of Music . His other teachers were Orlando Cole , William Pleeth and Peter Wiley . He obtained his artist diploma at the New England Conservatory with Paul Katz . At the age of fourteen he received a contract with Decca Records in 1994 , where he recorded the arpeggio sonata by Franz Schubert and sonatas by Johannes Brahms . In 2001 he won the Avery Fisher Career Grant .

As a soloist Lee u. a. with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra , the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra , the Cleveland Orchestra , the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra , the Philadelphia Orchestra , the Seattle Symphony and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra , of which he has been principal cellist since 2005. With the latter he led u. a. Richard Strauss ' Don Quixote , Esa-Pekka Salonens Mania , Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto (2009) and under the direction of David Robertson Osvaldo Golijov's Azul for cello and orchestra.

Lee made his recital debut in New York City in 2010 at Merkin Hall with Zoltán Kodály's Sonata for Cello solo. In the 2010–11 season he played the American premiere of James MacMillan's Liss on Wood for cello and string orchestra as a soloist with the St. Pauls Chamber Orchestra, Iannis Xenakis ' Nomos Alpha with the Publitzer Foundation of the Arts and with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Labadie Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations . He also recorded the latter with the Czech Philharmonic for Sony Classical in Korea . He also played Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto under Peter Oundjian and Joseph Haydn's Cello Concerto in D major under Jun Märkl .

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SURNAME Lee, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cellist
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle