Won Lee
INSTRUCTOR of Flute , UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
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A native of South Korea, Won Lee has been a top prizewinner of the National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition, NFA Orchestral Audition Competition, Young Texas Artist Music Competition, Texas Flute Society’s Myrna Brown Artist Competition, Chicago Flute Club Solo Artist Competition, Seattle Flute Society Young Artist Competition, Mid-South Flute Society Young Artist Competition, and the Music Teachers National Association Performance Competitions. He participated in the 9th Kobe International Flute Competition (2017) in Japan.
As an orchestral player, Won Lee has performed with Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra, Dallas Winds, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Round Rock Symphony Orchestra, and South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. He was invited as a flute fellow at the Music Academy of the West (2018) in Santa Barbara, California performing under the direction of Elim Chan, Stéphane Denève, Gustavo Dudamel, Larry Rachleff.
He appeared as a concerto soloist with Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra, Southern Methodist University’s Meadow Symphony Orchestra, and University of North Texas Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared as a guest artist and educator at the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas A&M University at Commerce, the Texas Flute Symposium, Dallas Public Library, Eastfield College, Dallas Winds Band Camp, and Floot Fire Summer Workshop.
Won Lee is currently the Instructor of Flute at the University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts and Humanities and holds a Teaching Fellowship in Flute at the University of North Texas College of Music. He maintains a private flute studio in Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in Texas with Monica Song, his former teacher and a premier flute pedagogue in Dallas. As a board member of the Texas Flute Society, he currently serves as a co-festival chair of the Texas Flute Festival.
Won Lee is graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University where he studied flute under Professor Marianne Gedigian and Marina Piccinini who are both Haynes Artists. He also received his Professional Studies Diploma from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he studied under Timothy Day. Currently, Won Lee is pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts in flute performance with the related field in music education at the University of North Texas under the guidance of Dr. James Scott and Terri Sundberg.