Internationally acclaimed violinist Ruda Lee made her concerto debut at the age of 6 where she was the youngest winner of the World Symphony Orchestra Competition. Born in Seoul, South Korea, her stage-career started with great success of receiving the first and grand prizes including Seoul President Award, Strad Magazine Award, Music Journal Competition, KCO Competition, Music Education Newspaper Competition, Korea Mozart Competition, Young Soloist Competition among others. She had a winner recital at Carnegie Hall in 2014 and a year after performed the J.F.Kennedy Center Honors Gala 2015 in Washington D.C. where she played with Yo Yo Ma and Pamela Frank with President Obama in the audience which was nationally televised in the United States. 

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Awarded a full scholarship from Yale University School of Music, Ruda has served as a co-concertmaster of Yale Philharmonia and has toured with maestro John Adams at the Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in New York. She has performed under the batons of renowned conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Krzysztof Penderecki, Peter Oundjian, Andris Nelsons, and worked with esteemed artists including Shmuel Ashkenasi, Kyung-Wha Chung, Joseph Silverstein, Igor Ozim, Syoko Aki, Cho-Liang Lin, Lynn Harrel, Emerson String Quartet, Brantano String Quartet, Tokyo String Quartet among others.

 

Ruda travels around the world as a versatile soloist and active chamber player performing at prestigious festivals such as Tanglewood, Kronberg, Norfolk, Banff, Great Mountain in PyeongChang, Tongyeong, Taipei, HK Chamber Music Festival, HK Arts Festival, and the recent Vivaldi Festival in Venice-Italy, where her performances of four concertos by Vivaldi received great acclaim. She is currently the Artistic Director of ‘Young Virtuosi HK’, focusing on crafting creative stages and pioneering a project that transcends boundaries and connects the world.