The Music Department at Concordia University Wisconsin is proud to welcome back The Lee Trio for a concert and masterclass in the beautiful Chapel of Christ Triumphant.
Since its critically acclaimed debut in 2002, The Lee Trio’s “gripping immediacy and freshness” and “rich palette of tone colours” (The Strad) continue to move audiences and critics around the globe. In recent seasons, the Trio has given recitals and masterclasses in cities from Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, San Francisco, New York and Toronto to London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Paris, and Kiev.
We’re proud to include Mequon, Wisconsin in that list.
The Lee Trio Concert
Saturday, March 15 | 7:30 p.m.
Chapel of Christ Triumphant | CUW Campus
The Lee Trio helped to launch the new Chamber Music Series at Concordia University Wisconsin in the Spring of 2023. This year (March 2025), it will continue to bring together world-class musicians to make music together in the intimate setting of the beautiful chapel on Concordia’s campus.
Because The Lee Trio is passionate about working with and performing the music of living composers, this concert will include works by two living composers, including a Midwest premiere performance and a World premiere performance.
Audiences will be able to experience the enduring classics of the great classical, baroque and romantic composers as well as encounter new music and premiere performances of works by local/Wisconsin/Midwest composers and/or composition students.
The Lee Trio’s visit to campus will also include a masterclass to instruct and coach music students about the possibilities, complexities, and art of composing for and performing with chamber ensembles.
Master Class with the Lee Trio
Friday, March 14 | 5:00 p.m.
The master class is open to the public and free of charge!
Meet The Lee Trio
Jennifer Choi | Guest Violin
Jennifer Choi has charted a career that breaks through the conventional boundaries of solo violin, chamber music, and improvisation. Hailed by The New York Times as “soulful, compelling..an excellent violinist,” she has performed worldwide since giving her debut recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in 2000. Recent highlights have included guest Concertmaster of the Grammy award winning Experiential Orchestra (EXO). A prominent chamber musician, Jennifer was a former violinist of the Miró String Quartet. She has performed for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums, and numerous other chamber music series across North America, Europe, and Asia. Read More.
Angela Lee | Cello
Since giving her Carnegie Hall debut in 1994, Angela Lee’s “amazing finesse, control and coloration” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “astonishingly rich tone” (San Francisco Examiner) has been celebrated with recitals in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and Victor Borge Hall at Scandinavia House in New York, Chicago’s Cultural Center, The Phillip’s Collection and Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Copenhagen’s Nationalmuseet and the Purcell Room at South Bank Centre in London. She has soloed with orchestras including the Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Francisco Concert Orchestra, the New Haven Symphony, the CAMS Orchestra, the Central Philharmonic Orchestra, the Paraiba Symphony, São Paulo State Orchestra, the Chautauqua Symphony, and the Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra (UK), performing works of Boccherini to Barber to Kernis. Read more.
Melinda Lee Masur | Piano
Lauded for her “lustrous performances [and] extraordinary musicianship” (Incident Light) and “impeccable technique and artistic interpretation” (The Columbian], pianist Melinda Lee Masur has performed on all three stages of Carnegie Hall, at London’s Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Ravinia Festival, the Festival Les Muséiques Basel and in cities throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. She has been featured on nationally broadcast radio, including Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess and Texas Public Radio, as well as on Hong Kong’s classical radio/television station, RTHK4, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Vancouver Symphony, Shanghai Philharmonic and Harvard-Radcliffe Bach Society. Read more.
Tickets & Pricing
General Admission: $25
CUW students, faculty and staff: $10
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Special Guest Artists
Laura Strickling
Laura Strickling, two-time GRAMMY® award nominee for Best Classical Vocal Solo Album for 40@40 (2024) and Confessions (2022), is celebrated for her work performing and promoting new music, with an emphasis on new additions to the modern song canon. Her, “flexible voice, crystalline diction, and warm presence,” (New York Times) make her a welcome guest soloist for a range of opera, oratorio, concert, and chamber works, including many nationally- and internationally renowned symphony orchestras.
Nicole Swanson
Violist Nicole Swanson has enjoyed a multifaceted career in the performing arts and higher education. Highlights include Assistant Principal Violist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Symphony San Jose, Teaching Artist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Manager of Community Engagement Programs at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music, and viola faculty at the University of Minnesota. She has also performed at the Academy Awards Governors Ball and with the Black Eyed Peas on American Idol. Nicole recently launched Zircon Arts – an organization dedicated to progress at the intersection of the arts, education, public policy, and social justice.
Jay Shankar
Jay Shankar was recently appointed as the Assistant Principal/Second/and Eb Clarinet with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He was named the winner of the prestigious International Vandoren Competition and a semi-finalist at the International Crusell Competition in Finland, as the only American Clarinetist. Shankar is also an avid chamber musician, a frequent guest of world-class orchestras, and has performed as Principal Clarinetist in several world-renowned orchestras. Shankar received his Masters at the Colburn Conservatory of Music and Bachelors from The Peabody Conservatory at The Johns Hopkins University.
Want in?
Concordia University Wisconsin is a Lutheran higher education community committed to helping students develop in mind, body, and spirit for service to Christ in the Church and the world. Music has always been an integral part of that mission. The music department contributes to the spiritual, cultural, artistic, academic and co-curricular aspects to University life on campus. As the campus has grown in scope and size the music department has become more integral to the University mission. To learn more about Music at CUW, click the link below.