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Kangho Lee, Cellist
Kangho Lee has been a sought-after soloist and chamber musician worldwide since his orchestral debut with the Seoul Philharmonic at the age of twelve.
He has performed in Korea, the United States and Europe with leading orchestras such as the KBS (Korean Broadcast Service) Symphony, the Korean Symphony, the Seoul Academy Symphony, the Suwon Philharmonic, the Euro-Asia Symphony, Yale Philharmonia, the Haddonfield Symphony, the Round Top Festival Orchestra, the Sofia National Academy Orchestra and the Halle Philharmonic. He has given solo recitals in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, New Haven and Seoul. In 2004, Mr. Lee was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea to be its cultural representative and gave recitals in Paris, Milan, Rome, Lyon and for the United Nations in Geneva.
An active chamber musician, Mr. Lee has collaborated with world-renowned musicians and frequently with the members of the St. Louis Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony. In 2001, Mr. Lee formed the Tonus Piano Trio with Kowoon Yang, a prizewinner in the Paganini International Violin Competition, and Jonghwa Park, a prizewinner in the Queen Elizabeth Piano Competition. The trio has been performing actively and has toured extensively in Korea. He has performed at the Music Academy of the West, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Orford Arts Centre, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival and the International Musical Arts Institute.
Kangho Lee’s artistry and career as a performer have generated much attention. He has appeared on television networks in Korea, the United States and South Africa, as well as radio stations WGBH in Boston and Vermont Public Radio. His performances with the KBS Symphony and Suwon Philharmonic, and his recent solo recital at Kumho Arts Hall in Seoul, were broadcast live on national radio. His interviews have been featured in magazines and journals such as Vogue-Korea, Asiana Airline’s in flight magazine, Music Journal and Strad-Korea.
As a highly respected pedagogue, Mr. Lee has presented master classes at many prominent institutions. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Swarthmore College, Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from New England Conservatory. Prior to his appointment at the University of Connecticut, Mr. Lee was Associate Professor of Cello and Theory at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Marc Johnson, Cellist
 Marc Johnson was born to a musical family in Lincoln, Nebraska. Under the tutelage of his first teacher, Carol Work, he won several national competitions and was accepted as a scholarship student at the Eastman School of Music. While there, he studied with Ronald Leonard and John Celentano. He continued his studies at Indiana University where he was a student of Janos Starker and Josef Gingold.
Mr. Johnson began his professional career while still a student. At the age of eighteen he became the youngest member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and played in that orchestra for four seasons. He has also been a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He continued to have success in competitions, winning first prize in the prestigious Washington International Competition, among others.
For thirty-five years, Mr. Johnson performed as the cellist of the renowned Vermeer Quartet. The Quartet appeared regularly in the world's musical capitals on five continents, and made extensive tours yearly in Europe and North America. Their recordings gathered critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, and include a version of the complete Beethoven string quartets on the Teldec label. The Quartet can also be heard on the Alden, Cedille, Orfeo, and Naxos labels. They received three Grammy nominations; one for Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ, another for their recording of the Shostakovich and Schnittke Piano Quintets, and a third for the complete quartets of Bela Bartok. They appeared regularly at the world's great music festivals, and held residency positions with Northern Illinois University, Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine, and The Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.
Mr. Johnson continues to pursue an active career since the quartet’s retirement in 2007, appearing in recital, and as soloist with orchestras in North America and Europe, and is a frequent presenter of master classes here and abroad. He and his wife, the pianist Katherine Johnson, are co-directors of Bay Chamber Concerts, the Next Generation, a series of free chamber music seminars for students from the state of Maine. He has been active in the commissioning of new works for both cello and string quartet, and has recorded for CRI Records. Mr Johnson joined the faculty of Boston University in September, 2007. His cello is a fine, old Italian instrument made c. 1730 by Francesco Stradivarius.
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