Alice Lee

Alice Lee began playing violin at age 5 in Victoria, B.C. and debuted when she was 11 years old with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra under Tania Miller as the soloist in Victoria Symphony Splash 2011. She is the top prizewinner at numerous international competitions, including 2nd prizewinner at the International Fritz Kreisler Competition 2018 and Vienna Classic Strings Competition 2019, in addition to the 1st prizewinner of the Cullerarts International Competition 2023, Shean Strings Competition 2017, and OSM Manulife Competition 2016. Performing as a soloist with orchestras worldwide, she has worked with the Vienna ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester under Johannes Wildner in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Radio Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Menuhin Academy Soloists, Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra, Niagara Symphony Orchestra, Spanish CullerArts Orchestra, LGT Soloists, and the Academy Chamber Orchestra in Koerner Hall, Toronto. She has made several radio recordings and broadcasted live performances with CBC 2 In Concert, and was named in CBC’s 30 hot musicians under 30 in 2017.

A frequent artist at renowned festivals around the world, she has performed at the Kronberg Academy Masterclasses, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Internationale Musikakademie Liechtenstein, Mozarteum Sommerakademie, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Rencontres Musicales Internationales Switzerland, Banff String Quartet Festival 2017, Banff Masterclass program, Festival Stradivaria, Herbstoene Festival, Morningside Music Bridge, and the Indiana Summer Academy. Additionally, she has played for artists including James Ehnes, Ana Chumachenco, Boris Kuschnir, Mihaela Martin, Jonathan Crow, Midori, and Paul Kantor.

She currently studies with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and has previously studied with Maxim Vengerov at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, as well as with Pierre Amoyal, Barry Shiffman, and Victor Danchenko. Alice Lee performs on the 1689 Baumgartner Stradivarius violin, generously on loan by the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank.