Mookie Lee-Menuhin & Jeremy Menuhin
Biography Mookie Lee-Menuhin & Jeremy Menuhin
Mookie Lee-Menuhin
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Mookie Lee-Menuhin has performed throughout mainland Europe, in Scandinavia, Britain and Asia both as a soloist and chamber musician. She has performed at some of the major halls in Europe, and Asia including Geneva´s Victoria Hall, Tonhalle Zürich, and the Bern Casino in Switzerland, Karol Szymanowski philharmonic in Krakow, Poland, Smetana Hall in Plzeň, Czech Republic, Musikhuset and Danish Radio in Denmark, and Sejong Hall, Seoul Arts Centre in Seoul, South Korea and Schloss Elmau, Germany. In 2002, Mookie Lee-Menuhin won the Yamaha competition and was awarded by the Danish Augustinus Fonden in 2003. She has made many appearances for radio and television such as BBC, DR, DK4, Radio Swiss Classic, and invited to perform at festivals such as Festival Pablo Casals in Prades, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Festival de Bellerive, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Boğaziçi University Foundation, Smetana's Litomyšl Festival, Felix Mendelssohn Music Days, Grandes Heures de Saint-Emilion and Seoul Spring Festival.
Mookie Lee-Menuhin is also an active chamber musician, and has played with, among others, Alberto Lysy, Gary Hoffman, Piers Lane, and her husband Jeremy Menuhin. In 2015, she made a disc consisting of first recordings of Shostakovich with Alexander Rozhdestvensky and Jeremy Menuhin.
Mookie Lee-Menuhin studied at Chetham’s School of Music and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Great Britain. She obtained a Master’s degree as well as a performance diploma at the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark, studying with John Damgaard, and Ronan O’Hora in London.
Jeremy Menuhin
is widely regarded for his artistry and the integrity of his interpretations: “unfailingly lyrical, exemplary, exquisitely polished, yet directly expressive” (The New York Times). “Jeremy Menuhin possesses the essential qualities of a maestro, a combination of refinement and contained fervour dominates his playing” (Le Figaro). The pianist has collaborated with some of the world’s foremost orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Radio, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Washington National Symphony, Orchestre National de France, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony, the Tonhalle and the Sinfonia Varsovia among many others. Jeremy Menuhin made his New York debut as winner of the Young Concert Artists Competition in 1984 and since has collaborated with such renowned artists as his father Yehudi Menuhin, Pina Carmirelli, Ivry Gitlis, Joshua Bell, Dong-Suk Kang, Mark Steinberg, Mstislav Rostropovich, Gary Hoffman, Steven Isserlis, Truls Moerk, Ernst Wallfisch, Gérard Caussé, Bruno Giuranna, the Talich Quartet, the Takacs Quartet, the Chilingirian Quartet, the Carmina Quartet and the Artis Quartet.
Jeremy Menuhin has recorded works by Schubert, Mozart, Debussy, Beethoven, Dvořák and Bartók. His recording of Bartok’s Sonatas for violin and piano with his father, Yehudi Menuhin, was awarded the prestigious ‘Grand prix du Disque’. His Schubert recordings have been widely acclaimed. To quote the London Times: “Every harmonic side-step, every momentary change of pace is tasted to the full”. Jeremy Menuhin is a devoted chamber musician and has been invited to play in the festivals in Schleswig-Holstein, Marlboro, Menuhin, Casals, Kuhmo, Naantali, Korsholm, Seoul Spring, Prague Spring, St. Nazaire, and the Midsummer Mozart in San Francisco.
