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Seiko Lee (born Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese soprano who began her musical studies at age four in Tokyo. As a member of the NHK Children's Choir for ten years she traveled on several good-will tours including a concert tour of Eastern Europe. After marrying a South Korean she became interested in Korean music and has performed extensively in Korea. Her second CD, ''Liberation'', is a collection of well-known Korean art songs. The ''Liberation'' CD was an important factor in her being invited to sing in North Korea. As a professional she has performed in both the opera house and concert stage in Europe,〔''In Touch'' magazine: "Cantata for Peace", by Gina Coleman, May 2008〕 South America,〔''La Nación'': "Realizan Concierto Mundial de Sopranos", November 12, 2007〕 Asia〔''Daily Freeman'': "Building Bridges Through Song", by Melissa LaJara, June 11, 2006〕 and the United States. She has recorded as soloist for Sony, RCA Victor and Manhattan Center Records. Her concert tours have taken her to several of the world's preeminent venues including New York's Lincoln Center, Manhattan Center and Madison Square Garden, Japan's Makuhari Messe and Shin Koguki-kan Stadium and Seoul's Olympic Stadium in 1992 where she performed for 120,000 people as part of the first World Cultural and Sports Festival. She has performed for many world dignitaries including the Japanese Emperor and former heads of state including Sir Edward Heath of Britain, Kenneth Kuanda of Zambia, Rodrigo Escobar Navia of Columbia and Stanislav Shushkevich of Belarus. She is a graduate of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art High School (music major) and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts (''Tokyo Geidai''). After graduating she came to the United States and has appeared in international opera productions including ''Carmen'', ''Macbeth'', ''La traviata'', ''Suor Angelica'', ''Così fan tutte'', and ''Un Destino Immortale''. In addition, she has performed with the Japan Opera Studio in Tokyo. She made her US operatic debut in New York City with the La Scaletta Opera and she has also appeared with the Connecticut Opera and New York's Henry Street Opera. In 1998, she presented a joint recital in Asunción, Paraguay with national icon, Gloria del Paraguay. Since 1996, she has been a frequent soloist with the New York City Symphony and the NYC Symphony Chamber Ensemble. In 1996, she toured with the NYC Symphony Chamber Ensemble in concerts in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Connecticut and Washington, D.C. In 1998 and 1999, she appeared as a soloist at the Lincoln Center with New York's historic Goldman Memorial Band. In 2002, she appeared with the New York City Symphony Chamber Ensemble in the Temple Recital Series in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2005 she was the featured soloist at the inaugural ceremony of the Universal Peace Federation at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. She appeared as a featured soloist in the ''Three Sopranos World Peace Concert'' in Asunción, Paraguay in 2007. ==Peace Advocacy== Beyond her career as a concert artist, Lee has exhibited a deep concern for issues of world peace and human rights. She released her first CD ''Songs of Peace'' and in 2005 she released her second CD, "Liberation-Songs of My Spiritual Country" dedicated to the peace initiative of healing the enmity between Japan and South Korea. She has traveled extensively to Japan and Korea to promote the healing and reconciliation of these two countries through music. She has made frequent appearances at the United Nations in peace concerts for reconciliation and healing as well. Her concerts in North Korea are also a result of her peace advocacy through music. She has performed in concert in North Korea in 2006, 2007 and 2008. She was recipient of the Gold Medal award for her performance in 2008 at the International Art Festival in Pyongyang. In 2005 and 2006 she appeared with the renowned, Israeli vocalist David D'Or in Jerusalem as part of the Middle East Peace Initiative Concerts for Interreligious Unity. In April 2006 she returned to Tel Aviv where she appeared with the R’ananna Symphony Orchestra as a featured vocalist in the premiere recording of the 40-minute ten-movement "peace cantata", "Halelu--Songs of David", co-composed by David D'Or and David Eaton. The composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, was a collaborative effort of D’Or and Eaton. Halelu is sung in English, Hebrew, Arabic and Latin, with greetings of peace of Judaism, Christianity and Islam figuring prominently in the lyrical content of several movements.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=December 11, 2008 )〕 On May 19, 2007, she performed with D'Or in the world premier performance of "Halelu--Songs of David", at the Sava Center in Belgrade, Serbia. The concert was televised to six other Eastern European countries. Eaton conducted the combined Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and the 120-voice choir of the Academic Cultural Artistic Society. She appeared with Maestro Eaton and David D'Or in a second performance of ''Halelu'' in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 8, 2007, with the Sofia Philharmonic and Chorus. She was a feature soloist at the 9/11 Peace Gala commemorative concert in New York's Central Park. Her European recital tour in 2011 took her to Paris, Geneva, Vienna and Linz. Seiko Lee is the president of the Seiko Lee Project, a non-profit organization, and has contributed to numerous social and charitable activities, including reconciliation projects for Rwanda, Zambia, West Africa and Guinea Bissau. In 2011 and 2012 she presented two European concert tours. In November of 2012 she was the featured performer at the Universal Peace Federation's Leadership and Good Governance Award Ceremony honoring Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, former President of the 66th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seiko Lee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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