Nov 8, 2014 2 min read

Alexander Lee, a 2014 graduate of Eastman School of Music with a bachelor of music in violin performance, has been awarded a comprehensive fellowship to the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Fla. The New World Symphony is the United States’ only full-time orchestral academy. The fellowship program is an intensive learning and performing experience that prepares gifted graduates of distinguished conservatories for leadership positions in orchestras and ensembles throughout the world. While at Eastman, Lee performed with the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Player, Collegium Musicum, the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia, Musica Nova, OSSIA, RestisNoise and SoundExchange, as well as in several cantatas, operas and student and faculty recitals. He has performed concertos with the Eastman School Symphony, Pittsburgh Civic and the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony orchestras and the National Repertory Orchestra. In the summers, he has participated in the Castleman Quartet Program, the Meadowmount School of Music, the Music Academy of the West and the National Repertory Orchestra. Other summer activities include quartet residences in Catskill, N.Y., and Camden, Maine. He is employed as a violinist with the Erie Philharmonic and the Syracuse Symphoria, and is a substitute for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a 2009 graduate of Trinity High School, a National Merit Scholar and an Eagle Scout. His parents are Kevin and Alice Lee of Washington.