{"id":1239,"date":"2022-04-11T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1239"},"modified":"2024-10-07T12:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T16:01:48","slug":"melinda-lee-masur","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/about\/contact-directions\/directory\/melinda-lee-masur\/","title":{"rendered":"Melinda Lee Masur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Lauded for her \u201cimpeccable technique and artistic interpretation\u201d [The Columbian], pianist <strong>Melinda Lee Masur<\/strong> has performed on all three stages of Carnegie Hall, at London\u2019s Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, the Berliner Philharmonie, at the Ravinia Festival, Festival Les Mus\u00e9iques Basel and in Boston\u2019s Symphony Hall. As a chamber musician, Masur has performed with such artists as Augustin Hadelich, Alban Gerhardt, Fanny Clamagirand, Adrian Brendel, and Thomas Quasthoff. She is a pianist and founding member of The Lee Trio, celebrated worldwide for its \u201cgripping immediacy and freshness\u201d and \u201crich palette of tone colors\u201d [The Strad]. The Trio has given world, American and European premieres of piano trios by composers including Uljas Pulkkis, Nathaniel Stookey, Philip Lasser, Jane Antonia Cornish, Laurence Rosenthal &amp; Sylvie Bodorova and garnered awards such as the Recording Prize at the Kuhmo International Chamber Music Competition in Finland and the Gotthard-Schierse-Stiftung grant in Berlin.\u00a0<\/span><span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A graduate of Harvard University and the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater Hannover, Germany, Masur is the Director of Piano Chamber Music at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Together with her husband, Ken-David Masur, she is Artistic Director of the Chelsea Music Festival, an annual summer music festival in New York City praised by The New York Times as a \u201cgem of a series\u201d and frequently featured amongst its Best Classical picks of the season.\u00a0<\/span><span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Melinda Lee Masur is a Steinway Artist.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19544,"template":"","bu_progs_degree-option":[],"dicipline":[125],"school":[],"unit":[439],"program":[],"position":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1239\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu_progs_degree-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_progs_degree-option?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"dicipline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dicipline?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"unit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}