Description
The opening movement of Vivaldi's Summer (L'Estate, RV 315) performed on original instruments by the award winning Early Music ensemble Voices of Music. Isabelle Seula Lee, baroque violin. This work presented here for the first time in 8K video.
Based in New York City, violinist Isabelle Seula Lee performs as a soloist, concertmaster and ensemble musician throughout the US, Europe, Asia, and she has established a reputation for her versatility and fluency across many musical styles.
Isabelle was born in South Korea and moved to Russia at the age of six, where she studied at the Special Music School of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory for ten years. At age eleven, she made her debut as a concerto soloist with the Tele-Radio Symphony Orchestra in Saint Petersburg, and since then appeared soloist with the Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Conservatory Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Estonia, and Lynn Philharmonia.
Isabelle is currently one of the leading members of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco, and she performs with other ensembles including Voices of Music, Bach Collegium Japan, New York Baroque Incorporated, the Sebastians, and Trinity Baroque Orchestra.
Her performances have been broadcast on live radio and television by WQXR in NYC, MediciTV, Estonian Cultural TV, WPBI, and Radio New Zealand, as well as on the Voices of Music video channel.
Isabelle holds degrees and graduated with full scholarship awards from the Juilliard School (two Master’s degrees in violin and historical performance), Yale School of Music (Artist Diploma), and Lynn University. Her teachers include Elmar Oliveira, Hyo Kang, Naoko Tanaka, Monica Huggett, Cynthia Roberts and Elizabeth Blumenstock, among others.
Voices of Music
David Tayler & Hanneke van Proosdij, directors
Isabelle Seula Lee, baroque violin solo.
Elizabeth Blumenstock, Lisa Grodin, YuEun Kim, Isabelle Seula Lee, Augusta McKay Lodge, Gail Hernández Rosa & Shelby Yamin, baroque violin
Maria Caswell & Mitso Floor, baroque viola
Eva Lymenstull & Elisabeth Reed, baroque cello
Farley Pearce, violone
Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord
David Tayler, archlute
Boby Borisov, audio engineer and ambisonics design
Video: Lloyd Hryciw & Rob Clevenger
8K technology: David Tayler
Produced by Hanneke van Proosdij & David Tayler
Post Production: David Tayler & Andrew Levy
Audio mastering, video cutting and final 8K color and render: David Tayler
Copyright 2026 Voices of Music
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