Acclaim

“Violinist Kristin Lee’s local recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium was a splendid first appearance. This 19-year-old student of Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School plays with essentially perfect intonation and rare stylistic aptness…she began with a tonally sparkling, vivacious account of Beethoven’s Sonata in G Major, Op. 30, No. 3…[Chausson’s Poème, Op. 23] was performed with a mastery of tone and mood rare in a performer of any age. Wieniawski’s Polonaise Brillante in D Major, Op. 4, No. 1 had a delightful swagger…” – The Strad

“It’s not often that one attends a concert and hears a young virtuoso – not in the making, but fully realized – as a master. Violinist Kristin Lee was simply spectacular…This is a violinist who has everything: superlative technique to burn, interpretative mastery and incredible sensitivity to the various styles of music she performed. Lee was in full possession of the skills required to colorize the violin tone to create the widest possible gamut of expression, from perfectly tuned harmonics to the most intensely vigorous, but never strident, playing. Listening to her, I was reminded of the young Isaac Stern. In a word, the recital was flawless. This is a violinist with a brilliant future.” – Stephen Dankner, The Advocate (Berkshire County, Massachusetts)

“[Kristin Lee’s] technique is flawless, and she has a sense of melodic shaping that reflects an artistic maturity well beyond her 17 years. The way she worked into an entrance or picked up a theme from the orchestra was miraculous…” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Lee met the challenges [of Brahms’ Violin Concerto] head-on with her already formidable talent. With flair and passion, she sang us an intensely lyric poem of epic proportion…It was a performance of the first caliber. – Albuquerque Journal

“The violinists…– Mr. Hope, Bella Hristova, Kristin Lee and Yura Lee – were excellent throughout the evening, playing with lithe, soulful élan and a cleanly articulated sound.” – The New York Times

“Though unlike anything I’ve ever heard, [Kristin Lee’s] performance [of Messiaen’s Thème et Variations] convinced you this is how it should always be…the Ysaÿe sonata [is] a piece with so much surface dazzle you could easily assume that’s all there is. Not with [Lee]. The music felt so substantial as to withstand comparisons with similarly unaccompanied works by Bach… [Debussy’s Clair de Lune] went well beyond the piece’s pictorial qualities and became a lullaby that showed just what depths of emotion music can contain…” – The Philadelphia Inquirer

“…violinist Kristin Lee…was operating on such a high level that the music carried the day.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer