Shyen Lee

Shyen Lee

Thailand

Shyen Lee currently serves as the professor of saxophone in Mahidol University, Thailand. Lee appeared as solo recitalist in various concert halls including Lincoln Center, Paine Hall in Harvard University as well in Montreal, Minneapolis, Paris, Bordeaux, and others. He has commissioned and premiered pieces by John Harbison, Frank Ticheli, Larry Bell, Gunther Schuller, and Bernard Rands. He also commissioned pieces by leading Chinese composers. Several Thai emerging composers have often written new works for him, including Narong Prangcharoen, Jiradej Setabundhu, Boomrat Sirirattanapan. In order to promote saxophone performance in Asia, he organizes saxophone summer camps in Bangkok, Taiwan and China on an annual basis. He has successfully established the tradition and pedagogy of concert saxophone in Taiwan. Lee studied with Kenneth Radnofsky in New England Conservatory (BM, 96) and Dr John Sampen in Bowling Green University (MM, 98).