'Introducing Shannon Lee'

Scott Cantrell, classical music critic

Dallas Morning News, GuideLive section

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Violinist Shannon Lee, Canadian-born but a Texan since age 2, is a protégé of DSO principal associate concertmaster Jan Mark Sloman.   She was all of 12 when she made her orchestral debut with the DSO, in the summer of 2005. (Check out her site: www.shannonleeviolin.com)

For her CD debut (on the respected Telarc label, no less), she’s joined by pianist Pamela Mia Paul, a professor at the University of North Texas.  An hour’s worth of violin encores played by a 15-year-old wouldn’t immediately leap to my CD player, but Ms. Lee is a dazzler.  No technical challenge seems beyond her, and her shining tone is gorgeous.  Listen how expressively she shapes Elgar’s Salut d’amour, complete with juicy and stylish slides, and the lyric middle section of the Kreisler Tambourin chinois.

Shannon Lee performs

with the Lewisville Lake Symphony