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Praised as a "lyrical jewel" in the press, Franziska Lee is one of the young top-class musicians. She finished her music studies in the class of Prof. HeeSung Joo at Seoul National University as best of year. In 2011, she came to Germany as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to complete her master's degree and her soloist exam in piano in the class of Prof. Sontraud Speidel at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. She graduated with distinction and was also a scholarship holder of the Zonta Club Karlsruhe. She received further artistic impulses from Prof. Peter Lang at the Mozarteum Salzburg and Prof. Françoise Thinat.
Franziska Lee is winner of numerous international competitions. In 2010 she won first prizes at the "International Piano Competition of Korea", at the Vienna "Prof. Dichler Competition "and the" Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Musicale Giovani Musicisti "in Treviso, Italy. At the audition for "Kumho Young Artists" she qualified for a solo concert in Seoul in 2012. Other first prizes and special awards followed in 2012 at the Concourso Internazionale di Musica Euterpe, the Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica Premio Euterpe and the International Music Competition in Padova. In 2013 Lee was the winner of the "Dr. Hermann Büttner Piano Competition "of the University of Music Karlsruhe and in 2016 she won the first prize in the" Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition "in London.
Her artistic personality and her musical commitment were honored in 2012 with the Sponsorship Prize of the Musikforum Karlsruhe / Hohenwettersbach and in 2015 with the Music Prize of the Kulturfonds Baden e.V.
Franziska Lee performs throughout Germany and throughout Europe in renowned concert halls. Several engagements also led the artist to Minneapolis in the USA, where she performed at the "International e-Piano MusikFest". As part of the concert series "Rising Stars" of the Universities of Music Karlsruhe, Freiburg and Stuttgart, she performed in 2015 as a soloist with the Polish Symphony Orchestra Toruń under the direction of Maciej Niesiolowski. This was followed by concerts with the Karlsruhe Chamber Orchestra, the Dortmund Philharmonic, the Philharmonie Baden-Baden and the German State Philharmonic Orchestra Rhineland-Palatinate as well as commitments in radio and film productions. Her debut CD entitled "L'HEURE EXQUISE" was released in April 2018 at CAPRICCIO. It contains piano solo works by Henri Dutilleux, Francis Poulenc, Jean Françaix and Pierre Sancan. Recordings from this CD have been presented by on BBC London (Radio 3) / GB, NRKradio / Norway, France Musique / France, BR-Klassik, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Kulturradio rbb, , MDRkultur and SWR2 / Germany.
In addition to her concert activities, Franziska Lee is also committed to the promotion of young musicians. She was an assistant to Prof. Sontraud Speidel at the Master Classes of the J & R Music Academy in Korea and she is a regular jury member at "Jugend musiziert", and she participates in the jury committee of international competitions. From 2017 on she is teaching at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe.
Franziska Lee is especially dedicated to the piano sonatas of Franz Schubert. So far she gave concerts with the sonatas D575, D784 and D959 in Paris, Heidelberg and Vienna (Schubert's birthplace). She played the sonatas D568, D784 and D960 in the Schloss Villa Ludwigshöhe in Edenkoben, Schaffhausen / Switzerland, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, the Seoul Arts Center in Seoul / Korea, in Leinsweiler and in Leuchtenburg. In 2018/19 she has a concert series with all piano works for four hands by Franz Schubert with the pianist Prof. Sontraud Speidel.
Franziska Lee is winner of numerous international competitions. In 2010 she won first prizes at the "International Piano Competition of Korea", at the Vienna "Prof. Dichler Competition "and the" Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Musicale Giovani Musicisti "in Treviso, Italy. At the audition for "Kumho Young Artists" she qualified for a solo concert in Seoul in 2012. Other first prizes and special awards followed in 2012 at the Concourso Internazionale di Musica Euterpe, the Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica Premio Euterpe and the International Music Competition in Padova. In 2013 Lee was the winner of the "Dr. Hermann Büttner Piano Competition "of the University of Music Karlsruhe and in 2016 she won the first prize in the" Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition "in London.
Her artistic personality and her musical commitment were honored in 2012 with the Sponsorship Prize of the Musikforum Karlsruhe / Hohenwettersbach and in 2015 with the Music Prize of the Kulturfonds Baden e.V.
Franziska Lee performs throughout Germany and throughout Europe in renowned concert halls. Several engagements also led the artist to Minneapolis in the USA, where she performed at the "International e-Piano MusikFest". As part of the concert series "Rising Stars" of the Universities of Music Karlsruhe, Freiburg and Stuttgart, she performed in 2015 as a soloist with the Polish Symphony Orchestra Toruń under the direction of Maciej Niesiolowski. This was followed by concerts with the Karlsruhe Chamber Orchestra, the Dortmund Philharmonic, the Philharmonie Baden-Baden and the German State Philharmonic Orchestra Rhineland-Palatinate as well as commitments in radio and film productions. Her debut CD entitled "L'HEURE EXQUISE" was released in April 2018 at CAPRICCIO. It contains piano solo works by Henri Dutilleux, Francis Poulenc, Jean Françaix and Pierre Sancan. Recordings from this CD have been presented by on BBC London (Radio 3) / GB, NRKradio / Norway, France Musique / France, BR-Klassik, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Kulturradio rbb, , MDRkultur and SWR2 / Germany.
In addition to her concert activities, Franziska Lee is also committed to the promotion of young musicians. She was an assistant to Prof. Sontraud Speidel at the Master Classes of the J & R Music Academy in Korea and she is a regular jury member at "Jugend musiziert", and she participates in the jury committee of international competitions. From 2017 on she is teaching at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe.
Franziska Lee is especially dedicated to the piano sonatas of Franz Schubert. So far she gave concerts with the sonatas D575, D784 and D959 in Paris, Heidelberg and Vienna (Schubert's birthplace). She played the sonatas D568, D784 and D960 in the Schloss Villa Ludwigshöhe in Edenkoben, Schaffhausen / Switzerland, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, the Seoul Arts Center in Seoul / Korea, in Leinsweiler and in Leuchtenburg. In 2018/19 she has a concert series with all piano works for four hands by Franz Schubert with the pianist Prof. Sontraud Speidel.