Loading details…
Artist
Yenne Lee
12+ albums
classical guitarscholarKorean Gem
about
Yenne Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1987. In 2015, she received her Doctor of Musical Arts in classical guitar from Manhattan School of Music, becoming the first-ever Korean to hold such an honor. A versatile guitarist, her interests include both classical and popular varieties of music. Her debut solo album, entitled Beautiful, was released on September 1, 2016. It includes collections of popular ballads and melodies made popular in the 1970s. She arranged this entire album for solo guitar performances, utilizing delicate classical guitar techniques instead of the popular finger-style guitar techniques, to recreate the vocal nuances of the originals for guitar. Yenne first established herself as a professional guitarist in South Korea. First garnering national attention from her winning various awards and accolades from several national competitions, she was accepted into the highly selective Seoul National University, an institution that accepts one guitar major per year. She performed at major concert venues and festivals such as the Sejong Art Center, Hoam Art Hall, Jeju Guitar Festival, and Busan Guitar festivals, to name a few. In 2007, International Arts & Artists, a major music management company in Korea, scouted Yenne for the Botticelli Guitar Quartet, which recorded for Sony Classical. She played the first guitar in their album Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons, which is the first ever rendition set to four guitars. Soon after the album release, she left for
