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 and the director of the Chapel Choir since 2004 at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Ms. Lee has conducted the Schola Cantorum and the Symphonic Choir, and teaches both undergraduate and graduate conducting courses at Westminster.  In 2005 and 2006, she led the Chapel Choir on concert tours to Pa, Md, Va, WV, NC, SC, and Ga.  Under her direction, the Chapel Choir has performed extensive repertoire including Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, Kodaly’s Pange Lingua, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb and sacred works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Ms. Lee has collaborated with many renowned guest conductors, including Anton Armstrong, Stephen Paulus, Kathy Romey, Dale Warland, Mark Laycock, Fernando Raucci, and Peter Bagley.  One of her collaborations included preparing Mozart's Coronation Mass for the performances at Avery Fisher Hall with Maestro Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic in 2006.   Ms. Lee has also premiered new choral compositions by Philip Orr, Stephen Young, Joel Phillips, Peter Wright, and Matthew Rendulic.

Ms. Lee is in constant demand as a guest conductor, clinician and lecturer.  She has appeared as a conductor in a joint gala concert of West-Windsor High Schools, and the for the Bucks County Senior High School Festival, Monroe County High School Choral Festival, the Princeton Amateur Musical Society and the Rochester Oratorio Society, Long Island All County Festival and, most recently, the 2009 Tennessee All-State Women’s Chorale.  This November, she is invited to be the conductor of the honors choir from the Baltimore County Public High Schools.  As a choral clinician, she was invited to San Jose University, Kodaly Institute in Hungary, and South Korea as well as numerous visits to local churches and schools.

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. During her residency, she was a member of the renowned Westminster Choir and Symphonic Choir and performed under Claudio Abbado, Kurt Mazur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Sir Colin Davis and 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 2001-2003, 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 has done doctoral studies at the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with William Weinert and performed with the Eastman Philharmonic Orchestra and Eastman-Rochester Chorus.   As a church musician, Sun Min Lee is currently a choir director at the Praise Presbyterian Church in Somerset, New Jersey and a member of the Korean Worship and Music Conference Committee.