Buffet R13 Clarinet with Chadash Barrel by Seunghee Lee

This is my first Buffet clarinet that my parents purchased for me shortly after I started high school. My high school band director put me in touch with a private clarinet teacher for lessons. Her name was Mary Beth Skaggs, who was a student of Robert Marcellus at the time at Northwestern University in Chicago, and she helped me buy it.

This clarinet got me through many milestones:

✦ It got me into Charlie Neidich’s studio at the Eastman School of Music for my undergraduate studies.

✦ Then into David Shifrin’s studio at the Yale School of Music for my Masters degree.

I also won many competitions with it:

✦ 1st Prize-International Clarinet Association Young Artist competition

✦ Winner-St. Louis Symphony Young Artist Competition

✦ Winner-Music Academy of the West Concerto Competition

And this clarinet has toured the world with me as part of the 1990 American-Soviet Youth Orchestra World Tour and also to Japan with the Eastman Wind Ensemble.

–Seung Hee Lee

 

*This clarinet comes with 67mm Chadash barrel.
**Certificate of Ownership signed by The Artist will be provided.**

$800.00

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Type Bb Clarinet (French)
Brand Buffet Crampon
Model Name R13
Serial Number 337847
Date of Purchase January 1, 1983
Package and case New Case
Original purchase receipt No
How many months did you use the clarinet? 90
Date of recent overhaul May 1, 2025
Condition of the instrument Completely overhauled. Plays excellent.

Seunghee Lee (aka Sunny Kang)

“Now here is a talent… who has a warm, silvery, and woody a tone as anyone could imagine with fast and keen finger work to match… amazing expressive capabilities… positively lovely
– Review by Allmusic.com

Grammy® nominated, clarinetist Seunghee Lee (aka Sunny Kang) is a multi-faceted recording artist, a TEDx speaker, and a music entrepreneur based in New York City. Ms. Lee has recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and she has been recognized by the Clarinet Magazine as “an uncompromising soloist, destined to be an upcoming contender of top stature”.

Ms. Lee’s multiple solo albums were featured as “CD of the Week” worldwide including at Classic FM Nederland, Symphony 92.4 (Singapore), Fine Music Radio in Cape Town (South Africa) and her debut album BRAVA, produced by multi-Grammy Award-winning producer Joanna Nickrenz together with recording engineer Marc Aubort, she was included in ‘Top 30 Classical Stars Under 30’ at KDFC Classical Radio in San Francisco.

Ms. Lee is the founder of Musica Solis, an independent classical record label, sheet music publisher, and a creative concert presenter based in New York City. Through the artist consulting initiative, Ms. Lee aims to guide and mentor emerging classical musicians to become independent entrepreneurial leaders of their generation. She is a frequent guest lecturer on the topic of Music Entrepreneurship and has appeared as a guest speaker at Harvard Business School at the 2019 Asia Business Conference titled, “The Game Changers”, the 2019 Yale Alumni Association Career Panel topic on “Careers in Music”, Eastman School of Music, Seoul National University, Juilliard Pre-College, and among many others. As a visiting professor, she enjoys performing solo recitals, giving masterclasses on the topic of shifting your mindset, and presenting her signature lecture series titled, “You are the Company”.

Ms. Seunghee Lee received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, studying with Charles Neidich and Eli Eban, and her Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music, studying with David Shifrin. Ms. Lee feels privileged to have also studied with Peter Hadcock, Fred Ormand, George Silfies, Howard Klug, LaurieDeLuca, Mary Beth Skaggs, and John Bruce Yeh of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Lee has performed at prestigious venues throughout Europe, Asia, U.S, including at Hollywood Bowl, Ravinia, Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago’s Cultural Center, and a sold-out recital debut at Carnegie Hall. Her collection of awards and competitions include the First Prize at the International Clarinet Association Competition, Winner of the Saint Louis Symphony Young Artist Competition, judged by Leonard Slatkin; Winner of the Music Academy of the West Concerto Competition, the Yale Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition, and the Yale’s Charles Ives Award. In her youth, she was selected as one of only three American clarinetists to represent the United States for the historic American-Soviet Youth Orchestra World Tour, with conductor Leonard Slatkin and violinist Joshua Bell. As a soloist, Ms. Lee has performed worldwide including with the Saint Louis Symphony, Gyor Symphonic Orchestra of Hungary, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento OFB, Orchestra “A. Vivaldi” di Valle Camonica, the Metropolitan Symphony of Minneapolis, the Jupiter Symphony, the Yale Philharmonia, the Dame Myra Hess Recital Series in Chicago’s Cultural Center and the Pucheon Philharmonic in South Korea where she served as the principal clarinetist. 

As a voting member of the Recording Academy, Ms. Lee is an elected Board of Governors of the New York Chapter. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Yale School of Music as well as the Concert Artists Guild, and in May 2024, she was invited to join the Global Council of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City.

Also, a highly skilled golfer, known as “Sunny Kang” in the golf world, she was featured in Hong Kong Golfer Magazine and spoke at TEDx Hong Kong about the surprising similarities between golf and classical music and the mental challenges of viewing both skills through the lens of a perfectionist.

​Seunghee Lee plays on Buffet Prestige R13, Vandoren V12 reeds, Vandoren B40Lyre mouthpiece with Silverstein Hexa Ligature. She is s a proud member of the Silverstein Inspiring Pro. 

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Weight 5 lbs
Dimensions 15 × 11 × 5 in

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