Yoonhee Lee is a Korean-American violinist whose adventurous musicianship and expressive clarity fuel a versatile career as soloist, chamber collaborator, and orchestral leader. Formed by the teaching of Masuko Ushioda, Vera Beths, and Anner Bijlsma, she has premiered and recorded music by Rebecca Saunders, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Richard Barrett, and Nina Young, and has worked closely with Kaija Saariaho, Enno Poppe, Georg Friedrich Haas, Beat Furrer, Jörg Widmann, Lei Liang, Seán Ó Dálaigh, and Shiuan Chang. She is the dedicatee of Simone Cardini’s solo violin work Ramificazioni d’indistinto (2018). Lee has appeared on major stages across Europe, Asia, and North America, including the Berliner Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall, the Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Musiikkitalo in Helsinki, WDR Funkhaus Köln, St. Eustache in Paris, Concertgebouw Brugge, Boston Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, Calderwood Hall at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, WGBH’s Fraser Performance Studio, Shostakovich Hall, and Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires, with two extensive tours in China.

Born in Seoul, she began piano at three and violin at five, later immigrating to Boston just before her tenth birthday. Navigating languages and cultures shaped an artistic voice drawn to the fluidity and fragility of boundaries, which she explores through innovation and rigorous experimentation. Lee earned her B.M. and M.M. from the New England Conservatory and an M.M. cum laude from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam; she received support from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Study Abroad. She performs on a Philip Ihle violin with a Joseph Henry bow circa 1860 and lives in Boston with her husband, Tom, their dog, Schatzi, and cat, Opus.