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South Korean pianist Hesu Lee made her debut at the Saxon State Opera Dresden in 2013. Since then, her concert engagements have taken her to Germany, Austria, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Serbia, Japan, and South Korea. As a soloist, she performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Roberto Spano; the concert was broadcast live by Radio Manchester. Further radio appearances have taken her to the Netherlands, where she performed works by Mozart and Chopin in a live broadcast.Her distinctions include prizes at renowned international piano competitions, among them the RNCM James Mottram International Piano Competition in Manchester, the Roma International Piano Competition, the International Chopin Piano Competition in ASIA, and the ASIA International Piano Academy & Festival with Competition, as well as her selection for the Glocal Piano Project of the 63rd International Busoni Piano Competition.Her artistic development has been supported by numerous foundations and scholarships, including the Gisela und Erich Andreas Foundation, as well as the Mendelssohn, Carl Maria von Weber, and Mozarteum scholarships, and the Richard Wagner Scholarship in Bayreuth on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth.Lee began her musical education in South Korea, attending Yewon School and Seoul Arts High School and studying at the Young Musicians Academy of the Seoul Arts Center. From the age of ten, she studied with Jisoo Yoo, a pupil of Paul Badura-Skoda, and went on to win numerous prizes at national piano competitions.She continued her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, where she studied piano and improvisation with Ute Pruggmayer-Philipp and graduated with the highest grade. She subsequently continued her studies with Jacques Rouvier at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. She completed her master’s degree at the Mozarteum with distinction and subsequently pursued further studies in a postgraduate programme. Her written artistic master’s thesis was devoted to Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano sonatas. She later served for several years as Jacques Rouvier’s teaching assistant at the Mozarteum.Further important artistic impulses came from Sir András Schiff, Andrzej Jasiński, Lilya Zilberstein, Pascal Devoyon, and Günter Philipp.Since 2020, she has taught at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.