Hyo Joo Lee
2nd Prize ex-aequo piano 2010
Born in South Korea in 1985, Hyo Joo Lee began her musical training at six years old at the Ye Won School of Arts in Seoul in the classes of Mi-Kyung Kim and Jin-Woo Chung. She then continued her studies in Paris with Jacques Rouvier, Theodor Paraskivesko and Itamar Golan at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. She also obtained an advanced concert diploma from the Ecole Normale de Musique in the class of Françoise Thinat. In 2010, she won 2nd Prize, Audience Prize and “ Coup de Coeur Breguet ” Prize at the 65th Geneva Competition. She also received prizes at other international piano competitions, including Cincinnati, Moscow Chopin, Piano Campus and Epinal.
Hyo Joo Lee appears with many international orchestras such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Geneva Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Gresseto and Kraków orchestras, the Armenia and Seoul Philharmonics and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Following the success of her first CD, comprising Chopin’s complete Waltzes the “ Coup de Coeur Breguet ” Prize enabled her to record a CD with the Musikkolegium Winterthur under the direction of Douglas Boyd (Beethoven’s 5th Concerto), released under the label Nascor (Harmonia Mundi).