Scott Lee (violist)

Scott Lee (* 1979 in Taipei ) is an American violist and music teacher from Taiwan.

Lee began violin training at the age of eight with Chia-Rong Lin . At the age of thirteen he switched to viola, and from 1993 he studied violin with Alice Schoenfield and Todor Pelev and viola with Donald McInnes at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in California . He continued his education at the Curtis Institute of Music with Michael Tree and at the Juilliard School with Paul Neubauer .

In 1994 he took part for the first time in the Concert Artists Guild Competition , which he won in 1996 as the youngest participant in the 50-year history of the competition. He received other prizes at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition , the William Primrose Viola Competition and the Corpus Christi (TX) Young Artists Competition . As a soloist he has appeared with the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra , the San Diego Symphony Orchestra and the LA Chamber Orchestra , and has also been a soloist at the International Hindemith Viola Festival and at the 22nd and 24th International Viola Congress . He has appeared as a recitalist at the Weill Recital Halls of Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York and at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

As a chamber musician, Lee has participated in numerous festivals in the USA and has worked with members of the Guarneri String Quartet , Juilliard String Quartet , Orion String Quartet and Miami String Quartet , the Beaux Arts Trio and the Mannes Piano Trio , with Cho-Liang Lin , Nai- Yuan Hu , Gil Shaham , Hilary Hahn , Ralph Kirshbaum , David Soyer , Peter Wiley , Gary Hoffman, and others together. He is Professor of Viola at the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory and teaches at the Idyllwild Chamber Music Festival and Workshop in California.

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personal data
SURNAME	Lee, Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American violist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1979
PLACE OF BIRTH	Taipei