Wednesday 16 October 2002, at 8.00 pm  City Hall Concert Hall

The Winners Series:     Yong-Kyu Lee

Yong-Kyu Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea and was educated at the School of Art in Seoul, at the Musikhochschule in Mannheim, Germany and at the UDK (HDK) in Berlin, Germany. 

He has won numerous prizes in various prestigious international competitions such as the Viotti Valsesia, Italy, 1988, The Long-Thibaud, Paris, 1992, the CIEM, Geneva, 1996, and most recently the first prize at the 2002 Maria Callas competition in Athens. He has played as soloist with orchestras such as Munich Philarmonic, L'Orchetre de la Suisse Romande, National d'ile-France, Mannheim University, Hellbronner Symphony, National Taiwan Symphony and the Daegu Philarmonic.

 Programme

L.V. Beethoven            Sonata No. 31 in A flat major. Op. 110

F. Chopin                     Mazurkas Op. 24

E. Elgar                        Pomp and Circumstance March        (Transcr. N. Lee)

          Intermission

A. Scriabin                  Sonata No. 5 , Op. 53

R. Schumann               Symphonic Studies Op. 13