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Doreen Lee

Doreen Lee, piano

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.