Recent performance highlights include Carmen at the Opéra Comique in Paris as well as concerts with the Orchestre national Île-de-France, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, and the Sinfonieorchester Basel. These engagements have led Sora Elisabeth to conduct in such illustrious venues as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Théâtre du Châtelet, Salle Gaveau and the Stadtcasino Basel. She also jumped in with short notice to lead the French premiere of the opera Die Vögel by Walter Braunfels at Opéra national du Rhin (Strasbourg), for which she obtained the honour of a standing ovation.

Her work as an assistant conductor has led to close collaborations with renowned conductors such as Aziz Shokhakimov, Jaap van Zweden, Klaus Mäkelä, Louis Langrée and Stanislav Kochanovsky.

Sora Elisabeth holds a Master’s in Orchestral Conducting from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, where she studied with Alain Altinoglu. Her training in France was preceded by a Bachelor with Bruno Weil at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, Germany. Parallel to her studies, Sora Elisabeth conducted the BBC Philharmonic, the Münchner Symphoniker, the Münchener Kammerorchester, and the Dresdner Philharmonie Kammerorchester.

She gathered further inspiration from Jorma Panula (Panula Academy), Fabio Luisi (Fondazione Arturo Toscanini), Stefan Asbury (Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellowship Program), Richard Hetherington and Mark Shanahan (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), Clark Rundell and Mark Heron (Royal Northern College of Music), as well as Lawrence Foster, Ed Spanjaard, and Ekkehard Klemm.

The ambitious young musician is also an award-winning solo and collaborative pianist. Her sensitivity and vast experience make her a sought-after collaborative partner for instrumentalists and singers alike, as evidenced by her Prize for Best Accompanist at the 2014 International Joseph Suder Lied Competition in Nürnberg, Germany.

Sora Elisabeth has a great appreciation for the importance of language and has learned German, English, French and Italian since moving to Europe in 2012. She is currently based in Paris, France.

Sora Elisabeth Lee

OCCUPATION
Artist in residency, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence/ France (2024)
Assistant Conductor, Orchestre de Paris/ Paris, France (2022-2023)
Assistant Conductor, Opéra national du Rhin/ Strasbourg, France (2021-2022)

EDUCATION
2017-2019 Master’s in Orchestral Conducting,
Conservatoire National Supérieur de
Musique et de Danse de Paris, France/ Prof. Alain Altinoglu
2012-2016 Bachelor’s in Orchestral Conducting,
University of Music and Performing Arts
Munich, Germany/ Prof. Bruno Weil

ORCHESTRAS
Orchestre de Paris, BBC Philharmonic, Ensemble intercontemporain, Orchestre les Siécles, Orchestre philharmonie de Strasbourg, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Pasdeloup, Orchestre Regional Avignon-Provence, Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Miskolc, Budapest MAV Orchestra, Orchestre de Picardie, Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra de chambre de Paris, Royal Northern College of Music Orchestra

MASTERCLASSES
Fabio Luisi (Fondazione Arturo Toscanini), Jorma Panula (Panula Academy), Stefan Asbury (Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellowship Program), Richard Hetherington, Mark Shanahan (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), Lawrence Foster, Peter Manning, Mark Heron, Clark Rundell (Royal Northern College of Music), Gal Tamas, Ed Spanjaard, Ekkehard Klemm, Alexander Liebreich, Michael Gläser, Rupert Hubert

AWARDS
Nominated for category Artist-Creative, Les Eloges 2023, France
Nominated for category Révélation Chef d’orchestre, Les Victoire de la Musique Classique 2023, France
Best pianist award, Joseph Suder Lied Competition 2014, Germany

LANGUAGES
German-fluent/ English-fluent/ French-fluent/ Italian-proficient/ Korean-native Language