“... Frankly, I was flabbergasted at her performance … Whether in the music’s majestic pages, its most poetic intimacies, or its turbulent dramas, this amazing girl had everything under control, and, just as importantly, in balance ...”

- Michael Tumelty, The Glasgow Herald

Born in Seoul, Korea, Sinae Lee enjoys her exciting career as a concert pianist based in UK. After graduating the Seoul National University with Distinction, Sinae came to UK to pursue her studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama (RSAMD), where she obtained MMus with Distinction and is now completing her PhD. Since her UK début with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), playing Brahms Piano Concerto No.1, she has also performed with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, St. James Orchestra, Glasgow Orchestral Society, RSAMD Wind Orchestra and the RSAMD Orchestra. She has given numerous concerts in London, New York, St. Petersburg, Riga, Edinburgh and Glasgow as well as her native cities, Seoul, Suwon and Busan.

While studying in Seoul, she won many prestigious prizes, such as the Chung-Ang Daily Newspaper competition, and the Korean Music Association for Overseas competitors. Her prizewinning career has continued since she came to UK where she won the London Intercollegiate Beethoven competition, A Ramsey-Calder Debussy Prize, Bach Prize, Governors’ Recital Prize, Concerto Competition Prize, Ian D Watt Award and the Dunbar-Geber Prize at the RSAMD. Her extraordinary playing has been greatly appreciated in many master classes held by pianists such as Lazar Berman, Dmitri Alexeev and John Lill.

“Sinae Lee’s release sets new standards for the performance of Szymanowski’s piano music, and her quest for accuracy has not in any way inhibited her playing’s wonderful sense of spontaneity." I am confident that any listeners responsive to late-

– Raymond Clarke, MusicWeb International

Recently, Sinae recorded Karol Szymanowski’s complete piano works on 4 CDs, released by the Divine Art Record Company on 13 November 2006. These recordings mark the first complete CD set in the world containing the late published Prelude in C sharp minor. This recording of Szymanowski’s entire output in this genre is her début recording and has received highly acclaimed reviews from Gramophone (Recommended Recording), BBC Music Magazine (Benchmark Recording), Music Web International (Recording of the Month, November 2006), Pianist Magazine (Recommended Recording), All Music Guide (Classical Editors' Best of the Year 2007) and Res Musica. Some of the pieces from her Szymanowski CDs have been broadcasted on BBC Radio 3, Radio New Zealand and Busan KBS TV.

Earlier in 2008, Sinae was invited to be a jury member for the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, Piano Scholarships 2008. She studied piano with Hwa-Young Yi, Hyoung-Joon Chang in Korea and Philip Jenkins in the UK.

Sinae is now a lecturer in Keyboard Studies at the RSAMD.