American violinist Angela Wee has been appointed as principal associate concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

In a statement to The Violin Channel, Wee said, “I am still processing the news. It all happened very quickly because I landed at JFK from Korea on a six-week tour with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle the day right before the audition. The jetlag made me delirious…but maybe in a way it helped.”

Wee graduated from the Juilliard School where she studied under Donald Weilerstein and Masao Kawasaki and is a recipient of the Juilliard Career Advancement Fellowship Grant.

She is the second-prize winner of the Sarasate International Competition and was a finalist in the Menuhin International Violin Competition in Beijing. She has performed with the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, Poznań Symphony Orchestra, Polish Sinfonia Luventus Orchestra, Massapequa Philharmonic and the New York Chamber Orchestra.