Channa Lee, violin

Channa is a seventh-grade student in the gifted program at Black Rock Middle School in Villanova, Pennsylvania. She studies violin with Ms. Yayoi Numazawa and piano as her secondary instrument with Ms. Natalia Varlashova.
Channa made her public debut at the age of four at the Mann Music Center’s Rising Star summer event. Since then, she has appeared as a soloist at the Elite International Music Festival and the Triumph Music Festival and has performed with the Warminster Symphony and the Ambler Symphony Orchestra. As the winner of the Bucks County Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition, she will appear as a featured soloist with the Bucks County Symphony Orchestra. Her performance experience also includes appearances at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.
In 2023 and 2025, Channa attended the Heifetz International Music Institute and continues her advanced chamber music studies at Settlement Music School. Most recently, she was awarded First Place in the Junior String Division of the Tri-County Competition and a full-tuition scholarship to attend the Luzerne Music Center.
Beyond the concert stage, Channa previously served as a Junior Ambassador for the Peace and Harmony Foundation and regularly shares her music through charitable performances benefiting community organizations. Through music, Channa hopes to inspire joy, kindness, and connection in every audience she reaches.
