The Hilton Head Orchestra welcomes the return of Andrew Lee, the 2004 Hilton Head International Piano Competition winner, who will perform Rachmaninoff's legendary Third Piano Concerto in two appreances, Jan. 30 and Jan. 31 at the First Presbyterian Church.

The program for the two concerts will also include music of two heroines - Verdi's beautiful slave Aida in Triumphal March and Ballet from Aida and Anne Frank in Elegy for Anne Frank by Foss and Greig's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 with the allegorical Norwegian Scoundrel. These selections continue this season's literary concert theme, Heroes, Heroines, Scamps and Scoundrels.

The second half of the concerts will be Sergei Rachmaninoff's monumental Third Piano Concerto written for his first tour of America in 1909.

Le's other honors include first prize in the 1993 MTNA-Baldwin Competition, third prize at the '97 Gina Bachauer Young Artists International Piano Competition, a '98 Toradze Concerto Institute Fellowship and a Whitaker Laureates Grant in 2003 from the Music Academy of the West to pursue advanced studies overseas.

Le has performed as a soloist with the Detroit Civic Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Youth Symphony Orchestra and the South Bend Symphony Orchestra. He has given numerous solo recitals and has performed in master classes with important pianists including Andre Watts, Ann Schein and Christopher O'Riley.

Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Le is a graduate of and holds a master's degree from the University of Michigan School of Music, has studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy under Victoria Mushkatkal. He also was selected to participate in the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and was a full scholarship student at the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau in 2003. Andrew Le is a doctoral candidate at The Juilliard School. He spent the summer in Aspen as a full scholarship student of John Perry and was recently selected for a professorship at Brevard College in North Carolina.

Tickets are $20, $25 and $30 and may be purchased by calling the Hilton Head Orchestra Box Office at (843) 842-2055. Tickets may also be purchased at the door the evening of each performance. For additional information, call (843) 842-2055 or visit the orchestra website at www.hhorchestra.org.