Conductors: Young Chil Lee David Lukáš Director of orchestra: Martin Šanda
Young Chil Lee - Chief Conductor
Maestro Young Chil Lee was born in Seoul Korea.
He has achieved a BM degree and MM degree from Mannes College of Music and he
has also received a Doctor degree in Music from the State University of New
York. Mr. Lee went to the State Musical Academy in Sofia where he studied with
Vasil Kajandjiev.
He quickly became known as a conductor who actively promotes appreciation and
education of symphonic orchestral music and combines Eastern and Western musical
expressions.
Maestro Lee has been a guest conductor and has performed with many different
orchestras in more than 70 concerts including some operas such as 'La Boheme", "IlTrittico",
and "The Magic Flute" in Europe. Maestro Lee has recorded Tchaikovsky's 4th
Symphony, Wieniawsky 2nd Violin Concerto and Beethoven Triple concerto with the
Plovdiv State Philharmonic Orchestra. Those recordings were released by Star
sound classical.
He is also published Brahms Symphony No.4 by EMI from Czech Republic, and is
recorded a world famous Flutist, Philippe Pierlot, is released from EMI from
Czech Republic.
Since the season 2006, Maestro Lee, holds the position of a foreign chief
conductor at Plovdiv State Philharmonic Orchestra and he is a foreign permanent
conductor at Pleven State Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria.
Since Jan 2007, Maestro Lee holds the position of a chief guest conductor at the
Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra.
During the season of 2008, Maestro Lee is a chief foreign conductor of the Bohemian
Symphony Orchestra in Prague, in the Czech Republic.
Maestro Lee has recorded more than 5 albums will publish by EMI with many famous
musicians and the Brahms symphony no.4, Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony,
Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.3, and Strauss's “Don Joan”.
Maestro Lee has been a guest conductor at the Sofia
Philharmonic Orchestra, Sofia National Radio Orchestra, Belgrade Radio
Orchestra, Novi Sad Orchestra, Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, Cluj
“Transilvania” Philharmonic Orchestra, Kahrkiv Philharmonic, Kiev national
symphony orchestra. Each year he performs in more than 40 different cities and
countries in Eastern Europe- Bulgaria, Serbia, Rumania, Czech Republic, Ukraine,
Kiev and Croatia.
“Maestro Young Chil Lee has a special gift for making music an exciting
adventure, whether it is through his teaching or conducting. Those who have
experienced his genuine warmth and intense enthusiasm for music may attest to
the deeper understanding and heightened emotional experiences they have
discovered under his musical direction.”
- Classical "Music journal" 2006 Korea
“The Symphonists of Vojvodina, following the remarkable full of inspiriting
conductor's gestures of Young Chil Lee, filled with power, expressiveness and
the sounding of all instruments. Especially touching were the sounds of the
tempestuous brass orchestra groups, underlining the dramatic points of the
composition.
Although led by the precise conductor's gestures, our musicians strongly
emphasized the contrasting episodes, through which the tragedy of the subject
matter was underlined. The beauty of the collaboration between leader and
orchestra presented us with the expected emotion-lined, inspiring, tonally rich
performance of the selected program.”
- Cultural Critic - Maria Adamov in Serbia
“According to me the concert began, too slowly, too 'dispersed' in the time. But
here something amazing happened. This conductor, not such a great artist who
stood somehow strangely on the music-stand far from being called an improviser,
strictly successively created a different sensation for space and time. This was
a different but not the typical configuration which put a new nuance on the
Symphony, gave it a rather 'unusual' aspect. And somehow he has added new sense
to its endless repetitions, changed by his Asian love to the details. The
Symphony grew into something rather unexpected like a moving sound picture,
sound plastics whose metamorphosis I was expecting with greater and greater
interest.
I was merely wrong about this conductor whose hearing somehow substituted the
symphonic context of this so often 'used' master piece. I think that the public
felt this metamorphosis.”
- By Ekaterina Docheva from “Culture” - a weekly newspaper for arts and culture
in Bulgaria.
„Nobleness goes to blossom and brilliance”
“The Bohemian Symphony Orchestra of Prague under the baton of maestro Young Chil
Lee took care of the nicest advent concert in Theatre Hybernia up to now. It was
the beginning of Mozart’s overture („Marriage of Figaro") that touched the ears.
This very delicate musical show with smooth tones and musical nuances were
produced under the baton of the South Korean conductor. The sensibility and the
accuracy of the musicians were proved in Brahm’s 4th symphony. Young Chil Lee
conducted the orchestra with incredible facility and nobleness. With his musical
body and soul he motivated the orchestra and led them to amazing achievements.”