Teacher behind Korean violin stars doesn't believe in 'prodigy'

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• ·'The ones not yet on world's stages are growing into something wonderful too,' says Lee Sunny Sunny Lee poses for photos with her lesson notes on May 8 in her studio at the Seoul Central Conservatory in Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul.
• ·(Park Ga-young/The Korea Herald) When violinist Kim Seo-hyun, one of Korea’s most promising young musicians, won the rookie prize at the 14th Daewon Music Awards on June 8, the 17-year-old took a moment to thank her teacher.
• ·“I am deeply grateful to my teacher Lee Sunny, who guided me to express my inner self through music and taught me with passion, never setting any limits on me,” she said at the prestigious ceremony, where composer Chin Un-suk received the grand prize and pianist Sunwoo Ye-kwon won the performance prize.
• ·The tribute drew attention to Lee, a violinist who has trained many of Korea’s most closely watched young string players since returning to Korea in 1994.
• ·Her students range from 32-year-old Kim Gye-hee, the first Korean to win first prize in the violin division of the Tchaikovsky Competition, to 12-year-old Kim Yeonah.