REIMAGINED: VIVALDI’ S FOUR SEASONS innovative, genre-bending orchestral performances and collaborations with the highest levels of musical artistry. Nu Deco is reimagining a fresh vision of what an orchestra can achieve in the 21st century. Created by Jacomo Bairos and Sam Hyken, Nu Deco Ensemble is a flexible and innovative hybrid orchestra which celebrates living and 20th century composers, reimagines traditional classical works and revered popular artists, and collaborates with a wide range of diverse musical and visual artists.
Kristin Lee
Kristin Lee is a violinist of remarkable versatility and impeccable technique who enjoys a vibrant career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, and artistic director. The Strad reports,“ She seems entirely comfortable with stylistic diversity, which is one criterion that separates the run-of-the-mill
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instrumentalists from true artists.” Kristin Lee’ s honors include an Avery Fisher Career Grant, top prizes in the Walter W. Naumburg Competition and the Astral Artists National Auditions, among many others. Lee has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Ural Philharmonic of Russia, Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Guiyang Symphony Orchestra of
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China, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional of Dominican Republic, and many others. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia’ s Kimmel Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ravinia Festival, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D. C., and Korea’ s Kumho Art Gallery. An accomplished chamber musician, Lee is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, performing at Lincoln Center in New York and on tour with CMS throughout each season. Kristin Lee released her critically acclaimed debut solo album, American Sketches, on First Hand Records in November 2024. Lee holds a master’ s degree from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Itzhak Perlman and Donald Weilerstein, and taught as Perlman’ s assistant as a Starling Fellow. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Emerald City Music in Seattle.
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