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Daniel Lee was born in Seattle, Washington and began studying cello in 1986, at the age of six. Four years later he made his orchestral debut with the Northwest Chamber Orchestra and, at the age of eleven, became the youngest protégé of Mstislav Rostropovich. Mr. Lee now studies at the Curtis Institute of Music and attends the Rittenhouse Academy where he is in the eleventh grade.

Since 1990, Daniel Lee has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the US and abroad including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony, Seattle Symphony, California Symphony, the New Queens Hall Orchestra, and the Seoul Festival Orchestra. In the last year Daniel Lee performed in recital at London's Wigmore Hall, which led to a contract with Decca Records. Mr. Lee is the 1996 recipient of the prestigious Jacqueline Du Pre scholarship at the Curtis School.

Daniel Lee is now seventeen. He is the winner of numerous awards including the 1990 Northwest Chamber Orchestra Young Artist's Cello Competition and the 1994 Philadelphia Competition. As a pianist, Mr. Lee is the 1991 winner of the Washington State, the Northwest Piano Competitions, and most recently, the Stravinsky International Piano Competition.

Mr. Lee has studied cello with Richard Aaron, piano with Ludmilla Feldman, and is currently at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia as a protégé of Mstislav Rostropovich and Orlando Cole, renowned pedagogue and founding cellist of the Curtis String Quartet.

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