An Incredible Partnership with At The World's Edge Festival!

As part of our 2025 partnership with At the World’s Edge (AWE) Festival, Orchestra Wellington is presenting a three-part series featuring AWE 2025 Festival Artist Yura Lee and AWE Artistic Director Benjamin Baker for a mini-series of concerts and a masterclass here in Wellington in addition to featuring these incredible artists' live performances with us on our subscription series concerts in September and October!

Join us for a Masterclass!

As part of our 2025 partnership with At the World’s Edge Festival, Orchestra Wellington will host AWE 2025 Festival Artist Yura Lee to present a masterclass for violinists and violists in Wellington.

Click "Buy Tickets" above to register to observe this masterclass for FREE!

Violinist/violist Yura Lee is a multifaceted musician, as a soloist and as a chamber musician, and one of the very few that is equally virtuosic on both violin and viola. Her career spans three decades and takes her all over the world, captivating audiences through various musical mediums from baroque to modern, and enjoying a career that spans three decades and takes her all over the world. She has performed with major orchestras including those of New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and given recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, the Palais des BeauxArts in Brussels, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

At age 12, she became the youngest artist ever to receive the Debut Artist of the Year prize at the Performance Today awards given by National Public Radio. She is the recipient of a 2007 Avery Fisher Career Grant; she has received numerous other international prizes, including top prizes in the Mozart, Indianapolis, Hannover, Kreisler, Bashmet, and Paganini competitions. Yura Lee was the only first prize winner awarded across four categories at the 2013 ARD Competition in Germany.

This event is presented in partnership with the AWE Festival.