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Earl Lee

Conductor
Music Director, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Winner, 2022 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award

  • Winner of the 2022 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, Earl Lee is a renowned Korean-Canadian conductor who has captivated audiences worldwide. He is the Music Director of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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  • In addition to a full season of concerts with the Ann Arbor Symphony and subscription concerts with the Boston Symphony in Boston and at Tanglewood, Lee’s 2023/24 season includes guest conducting engagements with the San Francisco Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and The Florida Orchestra. He has previously appeared with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, and Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.


    Lee’s 2023/24 programs with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra include contemporary works by John Adams, Brian Raphael Nabors, Joan Towers, Gala Flagello, Jessie Montgomery, and Zhou Tian as well as the first installment of a multi-year Beethoven cycle with Symphonies Nos.2, 5 and 9. He leads the orchestra in its Detroit Orchestra Hall debut in January 2024 in a concert during the Sphinx Organizations’s annual SphinxConnect convention.   


    Lee studied cello at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School and conducted at the Manhattan School of Music and New England Conservatory. He lives in New York City with his wife and their daughter.

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'Leading with bold and precise gestures, Lee walks the wire between grace and urgency'

The Arts Fuse

'[Lee] highlighted an array of stylistic, technical, and expressive connections that tightly united music written across 341 years…[his] attention to balances meant that the [music’s] inner voices emerged with winning clarity'

Boston Classical Review

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All artists

Chansonnier

HK Gruber

Counter-tenor

Tim Mead

Harpsichord

Richard Egarr

Piano accompanist

Roger Vignoles

Saxophone

Jess Gillam

Contralto

Avery Amereau