| Pei-Yee Lee
Pei-Yee Lee, a native of
Taiwan, has performed in Florida with the
Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, in the
National Recital Hall in Taiwan, in New
York's Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center,
Town Hall, Lotos Club, Yamaha Communication
Center, New Rochelle Library, Donnell Library,
Brooklyn Museum, Rye Arts Center, Greenwich
Center for Chamber Music, and Wainwright
House. Miss Lee was featured nationally
on the National Public Radio program Performance
Today, and has appeared as a soloist on
the Radio Station WQXR in New York and WJCT
in Florida. She was invited by composers
Ned Rorem and Krzysztof Penderecki to perform
their works and was invited to conduct a
master class at the Douglas Anderson School
of the Arts in Florida.
Miss Lee
began her studies at age six and by age
13 won the Taiwan National Young Artists
Competition. Her awards include first prize
in the First Coast International Competition,
the International Young Artists Piano Competition
for Chinese Music, the Stravinsky Awards
International Piano Competition, the Douglaston
Scholarship Competition, the BACA Piano
Competition, the Performers of Connecticut
Young Artists Competition, and several concerto
competitions at school. She was the recipient
of prestigious Chi-Mei Culture Foundation
Scholarship Award for two years.
She has participated
at the Tanglewood Music Center, Sarasota
Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival,
Ravinia Festival, and the master classes
of Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler, John
Perry, and Ruth Laredo. Her principal teachers
have been Arkady Aronov, Yoheved Kaplinsky,
Russell Sherman, and Claude Frank at Yale
School of Music, where she earned her master's
degree and artist diploma. She received
her doctor of musical art degree at SUNY,
Stony Brook, where she was a pupil of Gilbert
Kalish and obtained her Ed. D. in music
education (college teaching) at Teachers
College, Columbia University. Presently,
she teaches at Tamkang University and National
Taipei Teachers College.
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