Violinist Jennifer Lee will conduct a master class for students April 19 on campus.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Violin students will have a rare opportunity to enhance their technique at a master class on campus with Jennifer Lee, a highly regarded orchestra musician who has performed throughout the United States and abroad. The class is scheduled April 19 at 7 p.m. in the Doty Recital Hall and is free and open to the public.
Lee maintains a diverse teaching and performing career with solo, chamber and orchestral engagements. As an orchestral musician, she has performed with the Portland and Baltimore Symphonies, and on international tours with Maestro Christoph Eschenbach and pianist Lang Lang. Recent collaborations include performances with the Dover Quartet at the Artosphere Festival, and with members of the Aeolus and Left Bank Quartets at the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society on the Stradivarius and Amati instruments of the Smithsonian Collection. Jennifer has recorded for the Naxos Label with the Post Classical Ensemble of Washington, D.C. and Hansler Classic of Germany with Rolf Beck.
"Jenny is an incredible violinist with a monster technique and a very disarming and sweet personality,” said Andrew Bergevin, visiting assistant professor violin at Geneseo. “Besides having played in our country's greatest symphony orchestras, Jenny is an expert at meeting violin students at their current level, and she gets them to ask questions of themselves, about their own ways of playing. This process of self-discovery leads to dramatic improvements in a short time. I am thrilled she is coming to Geneseo for this masterclass.”
Lee currently serves as the professor of violin at Montgomery College and has coached chamber music, performance class and private lessons at the Peabody Preparatory Institute and for Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras. She has taught at Brooklyn College and Ithaca College’s Summer Music Academy, and is a former teaching artist for the Midori and Friends Foundation in New York City.
Upon graduating summa cum laude at Northwestern University with a bachelor of music degree as a student of Almita and Roland Vamos, Lee received her master of music in violin performance at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Lucie Robert. In 2015, she completed her doctorate in musical arts at the University of Maryland while serving as the graduate teaching assistant to David Salness.