SooBeen Lee Awarded Third Prize at 2026 Wieniawski International Violin Competition

Congratulations to Heifetz alum SooBeen Lee (2018) on winning third prize at the prestigious Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznań, Poland. In the final round on October 22, she performed a violin concerto by Wieniawski with the Poznań Philharmonic, conducted by Łukasz Borowicz. Celebrate SooBeen’s achievement with a look back at her time at Heifetz – In this video, SooBeen joins fellow 2018 Chamber Music Seminar students Nicholas Mariscal, cello, and Jingxuan Zhang, piano, for a spirited performance of Astor Piazzolla’s La Muerte del Ángel at a Heifetz Sunday Matinee concert in Charlottesville, Virginia.