an interview with violinist Lee-Chin Siow

photo by Daniel Schloss

LEE-CHIN SIOW is the Director of Strings and Professor of Violin at the College of Charleston, and co-founder and artistic co-director of Charleston Music Fest.

She has been recognized and awarded in her home country of Singapore as well as in her adopted home of South Carolina and Charleston, from where she regularly travels to perform around the globe.

She is also a big believer in the importance of classical music in our lives and in our education of youth.

In the video below, Lee-Chin talks about playing as a concert soloist and about teaching the violin—both of which she does with conviction and passion.

Her latest CD, Songs My Father Taught Me, topped HMV’s classical music charts and was picked for Fanfare Magazine’s 2009 Want List.