Historical
Piano Concerts Series
About
the Musicians
Doreen Lee
Doreen Lee
received her Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Colorado
Boulder, studying with Margaret McDonald and Alexandra Nguyen. She had
specialized in solo piano performance under the tutelage of Walter
Ponce at the University of California Los Angeles, and went on to earn
her Masters in Music at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland, with Benjamin Pasternack.
She has participated in master classes for André Watts, Martin Canin,
Oxana Yablonskaya, and Ronan O’Hora, and has concertized
internationally at the AMEROPA Music Festival in Prague, as well as in
Orvieto, Italy at Orvieto Musica. She was selected to perform in master
classes for pianist and music theorist Robert Levin at the Summer
Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg.
As a collaborative pianist,
Doreen has received instruction from members of the Takács, Cassatt,
and Tokyo Quartets as well as Jean Barr, Anne Epperson, and Jonathan
Feldman. An avid performer of chamber music, Doreen has participated in
various music festivals including the Bowdoin International Music
Festival, Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Music Academy of the
West.
Dr. Lee is currently on the faculty of the University of
South Alabama, Mobile, as Assistant Professor of Collaborative
Piano/Piano, as well as pianist of the du Toit / Lee Duo, formed in
collaboration with flutist Cobus du Toit. The duo's debut album,
Mythavian, released in 2015, takes inspiration from mythological
folklore and birdsong. You can listen on YouTube.
We welcome Doreen Lee to her first appearance in the Historical Piano Series.