Jung-Min Amy Lee

Violinist Amy Lee joined The Cleveland Orchestra as associate concertmaster in 2008. She has appeared as soloist with the Orchestra several times, most recently in Barber’s Violin Concerto at the Blossom Music Festival in 2019 and Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, released on Adella.live, in 2021.

A native of Seoul, Korea, Lee made her solo debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra at age 15 and enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music when she was 16. After completing her bachelor’s degree there, she went to The Juilliard School, where she earned her master’s degree.

Lee has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras in Europe and across the United States. She took first prize at the 2004 Irving M. Klein International String Competition and the 2005 Corpus Christi International Competition for piano and strings.

An active chamber musician, Lee is a member of the Omni Quartet and Ensemble HD and performs at the Marlboro Music Festival. She is also a former member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two.

In great demand as a teacher, Lee was appointed to the Oberlin Conservatory faculty as associate professor of violin in fall 2024. She also currently coaches chamber music at the Cleveland Institute of Music and, for a decade, served as violin professor at Kent State University in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music. She spends her summers as a faculty member at the Kent Blossom Music Festival, Ascent Music Festival, and Marlboro Music Festival.

Lee lives in Beachwood with her husband Frank Rosenwein (principal oboe of The Cleveland Orchestra), her three sons Joshua, Julian, and Benji, and dog Rosie.