Seung Yeop Lee

SEUNG YEOP LEE
Amateurs Program

Country: South Korea
Occupation: Professor of Mathematics, University of South Florida
Concerto: Beethoven Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 (I. Allegro con brio)

I learned piano from age 8 to 14.  I attended Yewon School (Seoul, Korea) as a piano major and took lessons from Kyung-Sook Lee.  Then I stopped piano and went to a regular high school.  I pursued Physics and Mathematics during my university and postgraduate years.  I have Bachelor and Master Degrees in Physics from Seoul National University and PhD in Physics from University of Chicago.  Currently I am a professor in the Department of Mathematics at University of South Florida. 

I started to take piano lessons again in 2018 from Vladimir Khokhlov, for one year.  My current teacher is Kyu-Youn Butler since the summer of 2020.  I won the First Amateur Piano Competition in 2020 hosted by World Piano Teachers Association USA-Missouri. Recently I have taken some lessons with Victor Rosenbaum.