South Korean-born Sinae Lee leads a busy life as a soloist, chamber musician and  lecturer based in Glasgow, UK. Since her UK début with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), playing Brahms Piano Concerto No.1, she has also  played with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, St. James Orchestra, Glasgow Orchestral Society, RCS Wind Emsemble and RCS Orchestra. She has frequently appeared in concerts in New York, St. Petersburg, Riga, London, Edinburgh and Glasgow as well as in her native cities in Korea such as Seoul, Suwon and Busan.   In Korea, she studied piano at Yewon School and Seoul Arts High School. After graduating Seoul National University with Distinction, Sinae was offered a place  to study at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) with a full scholarship awarded  by the Inches Carr Trust. A year later she obtained MMus with Distinction at RCS. 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 had continued in UK where she won the London Intercollegiate Beethoven competition as well as numerous RCS Prizes including A. Ramsay-Calder Debussy Prize, Bach Prize, Governors' Recital Prize,  Concerto Competition Prize, Ian D Watt Award and the Dunbar-Geber Prize. Her extraordinary playing has been greatly appreciated in many master classes  held by Lazar Berman, Dmitri Alexeev and John Lill.   In 2006, Sinae recorded Karol Szymanowski's complete piano works on 4 CDs,  released by the Divine Art Record Company. 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), MusicWeb 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. Between June and July 2011, she performed the entire series of the Années de pèlerinage by Liszt in UK and in Korea, celebrating the 200 anniversary of his  birth.The studio recording of this repertoire will be released on the RCS/Nimbus Alliance label around May 2012.  Sinae also has been in demand for prize adjudications. Recent adjudications  include Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Piano Scholarships at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), A Ramsay-Calder Debussy Prize and Walcer Prize at the RCS.  Sinae studied piano with Hwa-Young Yi, Hyoung-Joon Chang in Korea and Philip Jenkins in UK. Since 2001, Sinae has been teaching piano as a Lecturer in the department of Keyboard and Collaborative Piano at RCS.  Sinae Lee Flabbergasted at her performance (The Herald, Glasgow) Formidably equipped (Gramophone) -  Gramophone Recommended    Recording -  BBC Music Magazine Benchmark    Recording -  MusicWeb Recording of the Month -  Pianist Magazine Recommended    Recording Pianist / Lecturer Royal Conservatoire of Scotland  Szymanowski: Complete piano works (Divine Art 21400) biography