Patrick Jee, cellist Table of contents: Page 2... Biography Page 3-13... Review and Press Mentions Page 14-20... Photos 260 West End Avenue #1F New York, NY 10023 Tel: 646-326-7582 Email: cellist317@gmail.com www.patrickjee.com
Patrick Jee, cellist Praised as spectacular (American Record Guide) and a virtuosic tour-de-force (New York Concert Review) cellist Patrick Jee has earned international acclaim for his bold musicality, rich sound, and passionate performances. Mr. Jee has made appearances at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Center, and Wigmore Hall as well as special performances at the United Nations and on CNN, American Morning. He has performed at major music festivals including Aspen, Banff, Caramoor, Casals, and La Jolla. Mr. Jee has given extensive tours of the United States, Europe, and Asia and as a member of Ensemble Ditto he helped introduce over 15,000 people to chamber music as Korea s most popular classical musical presentation of 2008. In 2006, Mr. Jee was the Grand Prize winner of the 5th Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition. Other prizes include the Andre Navarra Cello Competion, the Holland-America Music Society Competition, and the Irving Klein International String Competition. His CD featuring 20th and 21st century works released by Urtext Records received accolades from the American Record Guide Patrick Jee and (pianist) Hyeyeon Park play with polish and urgency. This is an ambitious, unusual, and rewarding recital. His recording of the Fantasy for Solo Cello by Ezra Laderman (Albany Records) prompted the composer remarks, Patrick Jee is a consummate soloist, charismatic, involved, and technically brilliant. He knows the cello totally. Solo engagements with orchestras include Buffalo Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, National Orchestra of Toulouse, Edmonton Symphony, and the Chambre Orchestra Ile de France. Mr. Jee is also a member of the New Piano Trio (www.newtrio.com) whose prizes include the 2008 Fischoff, 2007 Coleman and the 2007 Plowman Chamber Music Competitions. Most recently, the Trio was named the winner of the Harvard Musical Association s 2010 Arthur W. Foote Prize for promising young musicians and chamber ensembles. In 2006 Mr. Jee was appointed by Sir Andrew Davis as the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago (Acting Principal during the 2010-11 season) and has also been Principal of the Grant Park Orchestra. His transcription of the Glazunov Meditation, published by International Music Company, recently won the Music Publisher's Association's Paul Revere Award, 1st Prize. He is also on faculty at Roosevelt University/Chicago College of Performing Arts. Mr. Jee holds a B.M. from the Juillard School and a M.M. from Yale University-School of Music where he studied with Aldo Parisot. He can be heard on the Albany, Urtext, and HM record labels, as well as www.webconcerthall.com. He currently resides in New York City and Chicago. For more information please visit www.patrickjee.com. 260 West End Avenue #1F, New York, NY 10023 Tel: 646-326-7582 Email: cellist317@gmail.com www.patrickjee.com February 2011
Press Acclaim Ezra Laderman s faith in Mr. Jee s brilliant executive skills was decidedly realistic-and, with hardly blinking an eyelid, the superb young cellist was able to throw the book right back at the composer, fulfilling all of his wicked demands. Mr. Jee is a gifted virtuoso with a satin-smooth bowing and singing line. -Harris Goldsmith/NY Concert Review Patrick Jee and Hye-Yeon Park play with polish and urgency Jee is spectacular in the Laderman Fantasy. In sum, this is an ambitious, unusual, and rewarding recital. -Lehman/American Record Guide In Ezra Laderman s Fantasy for Solo Cello (1998) he employs a wide range of technical resources, all of which were brought off flawlessly in an astonishing performance by cellist Patrick Jee. Performing the large-scale work from memory, Jee was always in control of a barrage of wide-ranging challenges to his virtuosity. -Evan Johnson/Yale Herald American soloist, Patrick Jee found all the pain, even the hopelessness, in Edward Elgar s Cello Concerto in E minor Jee s masterful technique and tight connection with the orchestra brought out all that is available in the work. -Bill Rankin/Edmonton Journal There was that sublime moment when full strings joined the recitative-dare I use the word orgasmic in mixed company? -Allyson Kydd/VUE Edmonton Patrick Jee s attractively bright sound emerged in the arrangements of Bizet s Carmen and the Bach Air. -Dennis Rooney/Strad Magazine Cellist Patrick Jee, who joined the ensemble for the Brahms Clarinet Trio, would, himself, have been worth the trip. The lyrical performance sounded almost like a cello concerto with clarinet obligato. It was nice that way. -Joan Reinthaler/Washington Post The Andante (Brahms Piano Concerto in B-flat) suited the dreamy, meditative side of Marc-Andre Hamelin s musical personality, nicely set of off by the sensitive cello solo of Patrick Jee. -John van Rheim/Chicago Tribute Violinist Andrew Wan, pianist Julio Elizade and cellist Patrick Jee demonstrated their enormous range by playing three very distinct works, all of them demonstrating the utmost technical skill as well as a finely honed sense of drama. Elizade, with his light, pearly touch in the passage-work; Wan, elegant and sensitive; and Jee, a remarkable cellist with real personality and a robust sound, achieved a perfect balance and expressive phrasing throughout. -Susan P./Reading Eagle