13/07/2026
2026第九屆《蓮花盃》澳門青少年鋼琴大賽評委簡介 - BoKyung Lee
Pianist BoKyung Lee (D.M.A.) has been active as a performer, teacher and scholar. Having performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the Asia and America, Dr. Lee has regularly appeared in many solo and gala concerts with solo, chamber and orchestral music, including the recent solo recitals in America, Korea, and Vietnam. Among her extended repertoire are Beethoven concerto no.5, Brahms concerto no.1, and Rachmaninoff concerto no.3.
Described by Vladimir Horowitz protégé and her master, Dr. Dean Kramer, as "an excellent pianist with a strong technique and beautiful tone, BoKyung Lee is equally at home in solo and chamber music as well as concerto repertoire. Her background as a singer gives her piano playing a unique ‘vocal’ sense." Dr. Lee was the winner of the University of Oregon Concerto-Aria Competition, performing the Brahms Concerto No.1 in D minor. She was also the winner of numerous other UO awards, including the Ruth Close Musical Fellow Scholarship, the UO University Award, and the UO School of Music Achievement Award.
Dr. Lee was an invited performer and lecturer by such organizations as the American Liszt Society, the Piano Society of Korea, the RePitore Music Association (Seoul), the Music Teachers National Association, and such conferences as the North-American Conference on 19c Music (University of Kansas), the College Music Society (Seattle Pacific University), and the Korea Association of Piano Pedagogy, where she gave numerous lecture-recitals. She also published a thesis for the KAPP Periodical (2015), and translated Boris Berman’s book, "Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas" into Korean in 2018. (Eumagchunchu, Seoul, ISBN: 9788913985461)
An artist with a keen interest in helping children in less developed areas, during her years in Hanoi she passionately supported the annual charity concerts by Khan Am Cho Em (KACE - translated as ‘a warm scarf for children’), which raised funds for constructing school buildings in Northern Vietnam.
Dr. Lee was a faculty member at Kangwon National University and Gachon University in Korea, teaching applied piano lessons, piano pedagogy, and piano literature classes.
Dr. Lee graduated from Seoul Arts High School in Korea, and received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Kyungwon (presently, Gachon) University. Continuing her doctoral study at the University of Oregon, Dr. Lee was awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Collaborative Piano and Piano Pedagogy with full scholarship. She completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2009 with the top score in the keyboard performance area (Thesis: “Franz Liszt's Piano Transcriptions of Lieder by Schubert, Schumann and Liszt - A Performer's Guide”), with the supporting area as Piano Pedagogy.
Having recently moved back to Eugene, OR, she is continuing her active career of teaching, performing and serving as a jury member of national/international competitions.
