Jinwoo Lee, a native of South Korea, began playing the violin at the age of four. He is an international concert violinist with recitals and concerts with orchestras in the U.S., Korea, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, France, Italy, Netherlands, and Austria, to name a few.

He has enjoyed success at several international competitions, including 1st prize at the Sorantin Competition San Angelo, Texas; 2nd and special prizes at the 20th International Rodolfo Lipizer Violin Competition in Gorizia, Italy; special prize at the International Georg Kulenkampff Violin Competition in Cologne, Germany; 2nd prize, Audience, and Bach prizes at the 33rd International Tibor Varga Violin Competition in Sion, Switzerland; 1st and special prizes at the 2nd International Lois Spohr Violin Competition for young violinists in Weimar, Germany; 1st prize at the National German Competition “Jugend Musiziert” in the solo violin and chamber music categories. He also won the Manhattan School of Music concerto competition and the Waldo Mayo Memorial Violin Competition.

He and his wife Eunice Kim, who have been enthusiastic duo partners for nearly two decades, formed the duo “Arco e Tasto” and were awarded the prize for Best Duo at the 20th International Violin and Piano Master Classes of the Music Academy of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Lee graduated from the Humboldt Grammar School in Cologne, Germany, in 2001. He studied with Stephen Clapp and Donald Weilerstein at The Juilliard School, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 2006. Two years later, Lee received his master’s degree from The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Robert and Nicholas Mann. He continued his studies with them at the Manhattan School of Music, where he received his Artist Diploma in 2009 and doctorate in 2016.

His former teachers include Michael Davis, Maria Giesy, Christiane Hutcap, Hyo Kang, Jongsuk Li, Igor Ozim, Jaegwang Song and Viktor Tretjakov. He drew inspiration from master classes with Pierre Amoyal, Bruno Canino, Pamela Frank, Miriam Fried, Leonidas Kavakos, Masao Kawasaki, Herman Krebbers, Cho-Liang Lin, Martin Lovett, Yfrah Neaman, and Sylvia Rosenberg, all of whom strongly influenced him and shaped his musical ethos.

He was appointed concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in 2023; prior to that, he served as first concertmaster of the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen for a decade. Equally passionate about teaching, he was a violin faculty member at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf from 2018 until 2022.