Associate Conductor, Sun Min Lee
Sun Min Lee is the director of the Rider University Chorale, a 70-voice ensemble at Rider University, since fall of 2010. Prior to this new post, Ms. Lee had been a professor of choral conducting and the director of the Chapel Choir from 2004 to 2010 at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey. Under her direction, the Chapel Choir made its Carnegie Hall debut on February, 2010 with outstanding success; the group also toured and performed extensive repertoire including works from the Renaissance to the 21st century.
She has also conducted the Schola Cantorum and the Symphonic Choir, and taught both undergraduate and graduate conducting courses at Westminster. 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 performances at Avery Fisher Hall with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic in 2006.
Ms. Lee is in constant demand as a guest conductor, clinician and choral pedagogue. She has appeared as a guest conductor in the West-Windsor High Schools Festival, Bucks County Senior High School Festival in Pennsylvania, Monroe County High School Choral Festival in New York, Long Island All-County Festival, 2009 Tennessee All-State Women’s Chorale, and 2009 Baltimore County Public High School Honors Choir. As a choral clinician, she has been invited to the Delaware ACDA Summer Conference, San Jose University, Kodaly Institute in Hungary, and South Korea, as well as numerous visits to local churches and schools. Her future engagements in 2011-2012 include conducting the 2011 North Carolina Music Educators Association High School Honors Choir and at the 2012 Delaware All-State Choir Festival.
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. In 2001-2003, she was on the conducting faculty at Hobart and William Smith colleges in Geneva, New York. Ms. Lee has worked on doctoral studies at the Eastman School of Music and has studied with Chang Hoon Park, Peter Erdei, Joseph Flummerfelt, Andrew Megill, and William Weinert. She is currently a choir director at the Praise Presbyterian Church in Somerset, New Jersey. It is her first season with the Masterwork Chorus.
She has also conducted the Schola Cantorum and the Symphonic Choir, and taught both undergraduate and graduate conducting courses at Westminster. 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 performances at Avery Fisher Hall with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic in 2006.
Ms. Lee is in constant demand as a guest conductor, clinician and choral pedagogue. She has appeared as a guest conductor in the West-Windsor High Schools Festival, Bucks County Senior High School Festival in Pennsylvania, Monroe County High School Choral Festival in New York, Long Island All-County Festival, 2009 Tennessee All-State Women’s Chorale, and 2009 Baltimore County Public High School Honors Choir. As a choral clinician, she has been invited to the Delaware ACDA Summer Conference, San Jose University, Kodaly Institute in Hungary, and South Korea, as well as numerous visits to local churches and schools. Her future engagements in 2011-2012 include conducting the 2011 North Carolina Music Educators Association High School Honors Choir and at the 2012 Delaware All-State Choir Festival.
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. In 2001-2003, she was on the conducting faculty at Hobart and William Smith colleges in Geneva, New York. Ms. Lee has worked on doctoral studies at the Eastman School of Music and has studied with Chang Hoon Park, Peter Erdei, Joseph Flummerfelt, Andrew Megill, and William Weinert. She is currently a choir director at the Praise Presbyterian Church in Somerset, New Jersey. It is her first season with the Masterwork Chorus.
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New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts
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