Sun Min Lee
Assistant Professor I
- Email Address: slee@rider.edu
- Phone: (609) 921-7100, ext. 8244
- Office: Williamson Hall 39
- Mailing Address: 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540
Korean-born conductor Sun Min Lee is an assistant professor
of choral conducting at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, where
she has conducted the Schola Cantorum, Symphonic Choir and is currently the
director of the Chapel Choir. She also teaches
both undergraduate and graduate conducting courses at Westminster. In 2006-2007, the
Chapel Choir performed in Westminster’s annual Readings
and Carols, a joint concert with the Westminster Youth Chorale, and
performances in Newtown, Pennsylvania and Wilton, Connecticut. Ms. Lee is
constantly praised for her variety in programming for pedagogical means; recent
performances with the Chapel Choir featured Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Kodaly’s Pange
Lingua, as well as works by Handel and Mozart.
Ms. Lee has collaborated
with many renowned guest conductors since 2004, including Anton Armstrong,
Stephen Paulus, Kathy Romey, Dale Warland, Mark Laycock, and Fernando Raucci
for a series of performances in Princeton. Other collaborations include preparing the
Westminster Symphonic Choir for performances of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and with
Lorin Maazel for performances of Mozart's Coronation
Mass with the New York Philharmonic in January of 2006. Ms. Lee has
also premiered new choral compositions by Westminster faculty and students, including Philip Orr, Stephen Young,
Peter Wright, and Matthew Rendulic.
Ms. Lee is in constant
demand as a guest conductor, clinician and lecturer. Last spring, she was invited as guest
conductor for the Bucks County Senior High School Festival in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. As a guest
conductor, she has directed the Princeton Amateur Musical Society and the
Rochester Oratorio Society, and was invited to conduct at the Monroe County High
School Choral Festival. She has worked as a clinician for high school choirs
from Canada and the eastern United States, including Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode
Island, New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey.
Ms. Lee earned a Bachelor
of Church Music degree from the Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary in South Korea and a Master of Music degree in choral conducting with
distinction from Westminster Choir College, where she studied with Joseph Flummerfelt. Prior to
coming to the United
States, she
received an advanced diploma in Kodaly’s music pedagogy from the Zoltán Kodály
Pedagogical Institute of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary, where she studied with Peter Erdei. In 2004-2005, she was on the conducting
faculty at Hobart and William Smith colleges in Geneva, New York, where she directed the College-Community Chorus.
Ms. Lee is currently completing a
doctorate at the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with William
Weinert and performed with the Eastman Philharmonic Orchestra and Eastman-Rochester
Chorus. She is also a choir
director at the Praise Presbyterian Church in Somerset, New Jersey.
