Min Lee started playing the violin at the age of two and gave her first public performance at five.

At the age of 14, Min enrolled at Yale University, where she was schooled by the late, eminent violinist Erick Friedman, himself a protégé of Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein. She graduated in 2000, at 17.

Min has recently appeared in concerts with the Philarmonia Orchestra of London, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, the NHK, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, San Diego Symphony, Prague Radio Symphony, and the Russian National Orchestra, under the baton of conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Peter Oundjian and Mikhail Pletnev.

Through her performances, Min has helped to raise more that $5 million for charitable organizations such as the International Action for Aids, the Hong Kong Red Cross Society, NAC Gifted Young Musicians, and the Presidential Charities.

Recently, she raised $250,000 in Shanghai for the Children with Renal Failure and through her performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy, she raised $200,000 for the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore .

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