Catherina LEE

AUSTRALIA

  • date of birth: 10th of December 1996

  • in 2012, Catherina was accepted into the University of Music and Performing Arts, the class of Professor Gerhard Schulz.

  • at the age of 13, Catherina won Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s Young Instrumentalist’s Competition, appearing as soloist with the orchestra.

  • In 2016 Catherina was generously loaned a F. Gofriller violin

Prizes: 2nd place in the Great Wall International Music Academy Competition in 2011; semifinalist in the International Heifetz Violin Competition

Program:

First Round

Bach Ciaccona from Partita for Solo Violin in D minor

Mozart Violin Concerto no. 5 in A major K. 219

Paganini Caprice no. 5

Second Round

Beethoven Sonata no. 1 in D major op. 12 no. 1

EnescuMénétrier” from Impressions d’enfance Suite op. 28

Kreisler Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice

Semifinal

Debussy Sonata in G minor L148

Enescu “Impressions d’enfance” Suite op. 28

Ravel Tzigane

Final

Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor op. 47