Enoch Lee

Enoch Lee (Seong Yeob Lee)

Enoch Lee is a Producer, a Composer and a Jazz Pianist living in New York City. He received his Bachelors of Music in Performance from Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA). In addition, he graduated with a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from New York University. Enoch believes that artist have to find and share the real beauty to give light to people’s heart in such circumstance, because humans get easily affected by what they see hear and think. (Enoch believes that, because people get easily affected by what they see and hear, it is the responsibility of artists to discover and share the true meaning of beauty, bringing light to people’s heart.) He attempts to express genuine beauty – the values people share in common even without education, such as compassion, kindness, care, sacrifice, love between parent and a child, and the wonders of nature – through his music. He focuses on composing music that expresses “true beauty”.

• First Album "Finish Line" is released in Oct 2014

Enoch Lee: Finish Line

Read "Finish Line" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
November 10, 2014

It is one thing for an aspiring musician to debut his album with talented veterans but quite another for him to create such an accomplished work as found in New York pianist/composer Enoch Lee's Finish Line. It breathes originality and purpose not only for the contributions from stalwarts that include saxophonist David Binney and bassist Drew Gress but also because of Lee's stellar charts--thought-provoking compositions and engaging melodies which inspire killing performances from the aforementioned veterans and rising stars guitarist ...

Enoch is a probing pianist/composer who is sensitive to the melodic arc of his improvisations and original compositions. His pieces take the listener on a journey to someplace they've never yet been. He is working toward developing a new syntax of jazz composition that reconciles the cultures of his native Korea and Metropolitan New York. Still waters run deep." -Drew Gress

"Enoch is an excellent pianist with a beautiful touch and a great musical imagination. He has a strong sense of melody and rich harmonic ideas as well as a spontaneous feeling to his playing. He is adventurous while being true to the song he is playing