Jiyoung Lee,
cellist
www.jiyoungleecellist.com
 Korean
cellist Jiyoung Lee is known for her passionate interpretations,
musical depth and sensitive performances. As a soloist, her performance
credits include such orchestras as Korea’s Seoul Symphony Orchestra,
New York’s Hudson Valley Philharmonic and New Jersey’s Bergen Philharmonic.
An avid chamber musician, she has played at numerous festivals,
including Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Music at Menlo, La Jolla
Summer Fest, Music From Angel Fire, Lake Champlain Champlain Chamber
Music Festival, Perlman Music Program, Sarasota Music Festival,
Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland, Seiji Ozawa Academy in
Switzerland, and the Great Mountain International Festival, Korea.
Highlights of her last season include chamber performances at Lake
Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont, solo recitals at New
England Conservatory in Boston and Walnut Hill High School.
Jiyoung Lee's 2015-2016 season included chamber performances at
Caramoor’s Evning Rising Star Series where she collaborated with
Pamela Frank, and Peter Wiley. Other highlights include a premiere
of Yoomi Pack’s double concerto for viola and cello with string
orchestra with New York Classical Players, and a solo recital in
Williams Hall at New England Conservatory in Boston.
Her previous season (2014-2015) include a debut with Bergen Philharmonic
playing Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor in November, two recitals
in Wilson Theater and Paul Hall at the Juilliard School, and a performance
at Weill Recital Hall as the 1 st Prize winner of the 2014 New York
International Artist Association Cello Competition. An active season
for chamber collaborations Jiyoung performed at New York City’s
Fall for Dance with the Orion String Quartet, violinist Cathy Cho
and violist Matthew Lipman, and at Caramoor Evning Rising Star Series
with Shmuel Askenazi. Moving into dance and theater realms, Lee
worked with choreographer, Nathan Madden at the Brooklyn Dumbo Dance
Festival, and participated in theatrical productions with the Ensemble
for the Romantic Century at BAM Fisher and at the American Institute
for Economic Research.
In addition to the New York International Artist Association Cello
Competition, Ms. Lee’s honors and awards include: winner, the Bergen
Philharmonic Young Artist Competition; 2nd Prize, the Alice and
Eleonore Schoenfeld Competition, Harbin, China; winner, The 2012
Juilliard Schumann Concerto Competition; winner, the 2012 Hudson
Valley Philharmonic String Competition, and 2nd Prize, the 2012
Hellam Young Artist Competition, Springfield, MO. Additional awards
include First Prize at the prestigious 2004 Korea Times Cello Competition,
and first prize at Korea’s 2004 Ehwa Press Competition.
Her recent solo performances include Lincoln Center’s Wednesday
at One series in Alice Tully, two solo recitals at New York City’s
Harvard Club, Korea Society, and as a soloist with the Hudson Valley
Philharmonic. Chamber music performances include appearances at
Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Victoria Hall in Geneva,
Lincoln Center’s Wednesday at One series in New York, Ravinia’s
Steans Institute of Music, La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest,
the Perlman Music Program, The Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland,
and Music from Angel Fire.
Born in Seoul, Korea, Jiyoung Lee studied piano before turning to
the cello. At 16 she made her professional debut as soloist with
one of Korea’s major orchestras, the Seoul Symphony Orchestra. Following
studies at the Seoul National University, Ms. Lee movedto the United
States in 2007 to study at The Curtis Institute of Music with Peter
Wiley, then cellist of the world renowned Guarneri String Quartet.
While at Curtis, Ms. Lee held the Joseph Druian Fellowship, and
was principal cellist of Curtis Symphony Orchestra in her final
year. She also attended The London Master Classes in Great Britain,
where she studied with Ralph Kirshbaum at Royal Academy of Music
in 2010, and 2013. In March 2013, she worked with David Geringas
in Interlaken, Switzerland. While earning her Master’s Degree at
The Juilliard School as a student of Timothy Eddy, she served as
principal cellist of the Juilliard Orchestra. She also received
the prestigious Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School studying
with Joel Krosnick. Currently, Jiyoung is pursuing her doctoral
degree in Musical Arts at the New England Conservatory with Laurence
Lesser.
Current as of February 2018
Victor Cayres,
pianist
www.victorcayres.com
 Hailed
as “spirit of a leader!” by La Liberté (Fribourg, Switzerland),
Brazilian pianist Victor Cayres has earned praise for concerts with
the Sine Nomine string quartet and as soloist with such orchestras
as the Boston Pops and Brno Philharmonic in the Czech Republic.
He has been a guest artist at Banff Center for the Arts in Canada,
Interlochen Center for the Arts, Boston University Tanglewood Institute,
Claflin University, Western Washington University, and has released
CDs for Albany Records, Parma Records, Centaur Records, with works
by American contemporary composers David Owens, Joseph Summer, and
John H. Wallace. Mr. Cayres frequently performs in Brazil, Europe,
and in prestigious venues in the U.S., such as Weill Hall at Carnegie
Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall, and Chicago’s Preston
Bradley Hall. His concerts have been broadcast live at Brazil’s
TV Cultura channel, Boston’s WGBH 99.5 All Classical, and Chicago’s
WFMT Fine Arts Radio.
Victor Cayres has appeared as soloist with NEC Philharmonia, Sioux
City Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Pro-Musica, Boston University
Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Petrobras Pró-Música, Orquestra Sinfônica
Brasileira, Orquestra Sinfônica and Orquestra de Câmera at University
of São Paulo, collaborating with such conductors as Ronaldo Bologna,
Mark Churchill, Marc David, Ryan Haskins, Gil Jardim, Keith Lockhart,
Norton Morozowisk, Donald Palma, Roberto Tibiriçá, and Jan Zbavitel.
Under the direction of Theophanis Kapsopoulos he has toured Czech
Republic and Switzerland with the Orchestre des Jeunes de Fribourg.
Mr. Cayres has gathered several prizes in national and international
piano competitions, including the 8th Iowa Piano Competition, Boston
University Concerto Competition and Richmond Piano Competition,
18th Leoš Janáček International Piano Competition in Brno (Czech
Republic), Gina Bachauer South American Competition, Nelson Freire
International Competition, Petrobras International Competition,
Magdalena Tagliaferro Competition, Artlivre International Competition,
as well as European competitions such as Sommerfestspiele Klavier
Wettbewerb in Murten, Switzerland.
Mr. Cayres studied with Brazil’s leading pianists: Roselys Alleoni,
at the school of music Maestro Ernst Mahle, and Gilberto Tinetti
and Eduardo Monteiro at the University of São Paulo. He also studied
for one year at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany,
while appearing in concert venues in Switzerland. He has performed
in masterclasses for John O’Connor, Steve Drury, Philippe Entremont,
Stephen Kovacevich, Dai Uk Lee, Ronan O’Hora, and John Perry, among
many others. He currently serves on the piano faculty at New England
Conservatory Preparatory School and at Boston University School
of Music.
B.M., University of São Paulo, with Gilberto Tinetti and Eduardo
Monteiro; independent studies at Staatliche Hochschule für Muzik
in Karlsruhe, Germany; M.M. and G.D., New England Conservatory,
with Wha Kyung Byun, chamber music with Richard Stoltzman; D.M.A.,
Boston University, with Anthony di Bonaventura and Boaz Sharon;
D.M.A Dissertation advisor: David Kopp, "The Piano Works by Leopoldo
Miguez (1850-1902)."
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