Bryan A. Lee, from Radnor, Pa., entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2005 and studied with renowned violinist Pamela Frank. All students at Curtis receive merit-based full-tuition scholarships, and Mr. Lee was the Susan and Edward Montgomery Annual Fellow.
Bryan has performed twice as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as a winner in the senior division of the 2008 Albert M. Greenfield Competition and during its 2005-06 season as the junior division winner. He has also soloed with the Delaware, Lansdowne, and Temple University symphony orchestras; Kennett Symphony of Chester County; and Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra.Awarded the bronze medal at the 2005 Stulberg International String Competition, Bryan also won second place at the 2004 Kingsville International Young Performers Competition. He was featured on From the Top, NPR's nationally broadcast show. He has attended Ravinia's Steans Institute for Young Artists, Music from Angel Fire's Young Artist Program, ENCORE School for Strings, Sarasota Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and Perlman Music Program.
Bryan is a member of the Old City String Quartet, which was formed in 2008 with fellow Curtis students Joel Link, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, and Camden Shaw. The quartet won the grand prize of the 2010 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the gold medal in the Senior String Division. They participated in a winner's tour of the midwestern United States in October 2010 and will perform several concerts at the Emilia Romagna Festival in Italy in 2011. The quartet made its West Coast debut in 2010 as the resident quartet of the International Chamber Music Festival of Malibu and later that year gave recitals in Birmingham and Huntsville (Ala.) and on Kneisel Hall's Emerging Artist Series. It had its New York debut at the Schneider Concerts series in December 2010.
As a member of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Bryan has worked with renowned conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, Simon Rattle, and Alan Gilbert. While at Curtis he has performed in master classes with Salvatore Accardo, Jonathan Biss, Miriam Fried, Leonidas Kavakos, the Takács Quartet, and the Emerson String Quartet.
