South Korean cellist Yong-Jun Lee is acknowledged as a young cellist of distinction, equally at home in solo, chamber and orchestra. As a soloist Yong-Jun has performed most notably at Cadogan Hall and Dora Stoutzker Hall. He has also given solo performances at Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Mary’s Perivale and Korea Culture Centre. He is equally a committed chamber musician and has won the Isaacs & Pirani Piano Trio prize at Royal Academy of Music and Purcell School chamber music competitions, leading to numerous performances at the Wigmore Hall. He has also appeared at St James’ Piccadilly, St Martin-inthe-Fields. In the field of Orchestra, he has led as principal cello in Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra and Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the great conductors including Edward Gardner, Colin Metters, Jac van Steen, Karina Canellakis, Paul Daniel and Sir Mark Elder. He has recently led the section in the collaborative Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music and the Juillard School at the BBC Proms. Yong-Jun has collaborated with such artists as Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Josef Spacek, Ofer Folk, Virginia Black and Dominic Grier and has performed in masterclasses with Colin Carr, Gary Hoffman, Steven Doane, Stephan Forck, Louise Hopkins, Guy Johnston, Sung-Won Yang, Konstantin Heidrich, Hannah Roberts and Mario Brunello. Yong-Jun Lee began his musical studies at age 5 with piano, and then took up the cello at age 7 at the Seoul Arts Centre. After switching his first study to cello, Yong-Jun was later awarded a place at The Purcell School of Music, where he studied cello with Pal Banda and piano with Marisa Cornford, Clare Sutherland and Caterina Grewe. Yong-Jun was awarded a full scholarship to undertake his undergraduate studies at
British/Chinese concert pianist Bocheng Wang was born in Lanzhou, China. Currently studying with Professor Christopher Elton for Bachelor's Degree (four years) at the Royal Academy of Music. His study is generously supported by the Violet Irene Strutton Award with full scholarship and he is an artist at the Talent Unlimited Foundation. Bocheng’s competition successes includes the first prize at Grand Prize Virtuoso “Salzburg” International Music Competition (2019), first prize at Croydon Concerto Competition (2015), second prize at Liszt International Society Piano Competition (2015), third prize at the ‘Young Pianist of the North' International Piano Competition (2012). In 2018, he was a semifinalist at the prestigious Santander International Piano Competition and performed with the Cuarteto Quiroga.
In the recent years, he performed with many orchestras such as Dulwich Symphony, London Mozart Players and Purcell Symphony. He also worked with conductors including Leigh O'Hara, Dominic Peckham, and Robin O’Neil. Besides, he appeared in many international festivals such as Konzertarbeitswochen Goslar, PianoTexas, Ferrara, and Dartington. In June 2016, he was invited to play for a celebratory concert in honour of HM The Queen Elizabeth II 's 90th birthday and honoured to meet Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. Since then, he performed in prestigious venues such as the Fazioli Hall in Sacile, Italy, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, London's Kings Place, Wigmore Hall, St. Martin-in-the-fields, Fairfield Hall and Watford Colosseum. In 2017, he toured in North England. Bocheng has also participated in many masterclasses worldwide with maestros such as Professor Dmitri Bashkirov, Arie Vardi, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Andrzej Jasinski, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Pascal Rogé, Pascal Devoyon, and Dmitry Alexeev. Bocheng will next perform at the Royal Academy of Music Piano Festival on 1st July.