Amy Sunyoung Lee, cello

Third-year Cello Fellow Amy Sunyoung Lee has performed across Canada, Europe and Asia. She has appeared in major venues such as Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Konzerthaus Berlin, Seoul Arts Centre, Koerner Hall, Roy Thompson Hall, National Arts Centre Ottawa and La Maison Symphonique.

Most recently, Ms. Lee has been invited to the prestigious Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, where she has performed as principal cellist during their tour throughout Germany. She was also a featured soloist in Hans Zender's Schumann Phantasie for Large Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski, the performance of which was broadcast live by ARD Radio. Other music festival appearances have included the Banff Centre Music Festival and PyeongChang Great Mountains Music Festival.

While in Toronto, Ms. Lee was a member of the Innig Quartet, which won the University of Toronto’s Felix Galimir Chamber Music Competition in 2017. An avid orchestral musician, she has performed with ensembles such as the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Orchestre de la Francophonie and Royal Conservatory Orchestra, under the baton of many world-renowned conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Krzysztof Urbański, Leon Fleisher, Stéphane Denève, Sir Roger Norrington and Vladimir Jurowski.

Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Ms. Lee began her musical studies at the pre-college division of the Korean National University of the Arts. She received artist diploma from The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music, where she also completed her undergraduate studies. Her primary teachers include Desmond Hoebig, Andrés Díaz and David Hetherington.