Prize-winning piano prodigy to play at Saint Vincent College

Pianist Nathan Lee, winner of the 2020 Bronder Prize for Piano, will perform at the Jan. 25 installment of the Saint Vincent College Concert Series.

The 18-year-old Lee’s performance will begin at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center of the Robert S. Carey Student Center on the Unity campus.

Lee has already regularly performed to audiences across the world during a prodigious, award-winning career.

At 14, the Seattle native won First Prize at the Minnesota International Piano e-Competition, before taking top honors in the junior division of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, the second largest piano competition in the U.S.

In 2016, Lee won First Prize at the 2016 Young Concert Artists (YCA) International Auditions, along with 14 additional special prizes. That same year, Lee placed third at the prestigious Cooper International Competition, presented by the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Orchestra, earning the opportunity to play a complete concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra.

Lee has appeared as a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Buffalo Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle (North Carolina), Orquestra Filarmónica de Boca del Rîo in Mexico and Daejeon Philharmonic in Korea.

In 2017, Lee made his New York debut in The Peter Marino Concert, opening the YCA Series at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, before a sold-out, critically acclaimed Kennedy Center debut in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Lee received the Tabor Foundation Award as best pianist at the 2019 Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland.

Lee began playing the piano at age 6 and made his orchestral debut at 9. Currently, he studies at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

At Saint Vincent, Lee will be awarded the Bronder Prize for Piano, created in 2008 to honor the founder of the concert series, Father Joseph Bronder, O.S.B., a concert pianist, piano instructor and classical music presenter. Each season, the prize is awarded to an exceptional young pianist at the beginning of his or her career.

A ticket is $26, students and children 12 and under are admitted free. A free reception with Lee will follow the performance.

Upcoming concerts in the series include: “Pennsylvania Pipes!”, with organists Donald Fellows, J. Christopher Pardini and Wesley Parrott, Feb. 15; and “A Night of Intimate Chamber Music and Conversation with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians,” March 14.

Details: 724-805-2177 or stvincent.edu/concertseries