ELISSA LEE

Elissa Lee has appeared as a soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, l'Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, the Boris Brott Festival Orchestra, the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, l'Orchestre de Chambre de Montréal and the Royal Conservatory of Music Orchestra.

She studied at the Royal Conservatory of Toronto and at the University of Toronto where she received a masters degree in performance. Elissa Lee then moved to Germany to study privately with Andreas Reiner in Munich and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.

Elissa has held positions as second concertmaster in both the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the WDR Sinfonie Orchester. Elissa has had a busy chamber music life as first violinist of the Kamareli Quartet and the Bomari String Quartet. As a chamber musician she has performed with Louie Lortie, Augustin Dumay, Anton Kuerti, amongst others and has been a frequent participant of Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove, England. Elissa Lee joined Ensemble Made in Canada in 2010, which performs concerts and tours throughout Canada.