Artist Biography
Dr. Evelyn Lee is a Greater Los Angeles based pianist, collaborative artist, and music educator. She performed at various venues throughout the United States and Europe, including the Armstrong Theatre in Torrance, California; UC Irvine Winifred Smith Hall; Sant'Anna dei Lombardi in Naples, Italy; Studzinski Recital Hall at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine; Lorimer Chapel at Colby College in Waterville, Maine; Robert J. Werner Recital Hall at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio; and the Summit Series and the Washington Square Concert in Rochester, New York. Her concerto performances include Saint-Saëns “Africa” with South Bay Musica Sinfonia under the baton of Frank Fetta, Prokofiev Concerto No. 3 with the Beach Cities Symphony Orchestra directed by Barry Brisk, and also with the Southwestern Youth Festival Orchestra with Frances Steiner.
She is in demand as a collaborative pianist, playing as a guest pianist alongside violinist Artem Fominyx at The Wallis in Beverly Hills, and was interviewed by KUSC host Brian Lauritzen at the Pre-Concert Conversation. She also played at the California Association of Professional Music Teachers conference master class and at the YoungArts Foundation Concert at UCLA Royce Hall as a collaborative pianist. She collaborated with studios of Bing Wang, Glenn Dicterow, Nick Strimple, Elizabeth Hynes, and Rod Gilfry, and she was awarded the Keyboard Studies Ensemble Award by the USC Thornton School of Music.
She presented at various state and national music teacher conferences including the San Jose CAPMT Conference in 2019, the Florida State Conference in 2020, and the MTNA National Symposium in 2021 and 2022. Her publication includes an article called “Mirrored in Music: Experiences of Life, Death, and Spirituality as Embodied in Selected Piano Pieces by Underrepresented North American Composers of the Twentieth Century” in the October 2021 issue of the CAPMT Connect Journal. She is also active in CAPMT as the Young Professional Leadership Network State Chair, where she leads an initiative dedicated to supporting new and emerging California music teachers in the early stages of their careers. She is also a part of the CAPMT Conference Planning Committee, where she takes part in organizing the state conference. She also founded the MTNA Riverside City College Collegiate Chapter and is the chapter advisor for students.
She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance, and minor fields in Music Theory, Collaborative Piano, and Choral Conducting at the University of Southern California. She received full tuition and a generous stipend with her teaching assistantship, and she taught group piano courses and private instruction to music majors, minors, and non-majors. She also completed a Master of Music degree from USC, a Bachelor of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and also formerly studied at the Eastman School of Music. Her former teachers include Bernadene Blaha, Alan Smith, Yoshikazu Nagai, Enrico Elisi, Mihyang Keel, and Esther Keel.
She is currently a full-time Collaborative Pianist at Riverside City College, and she also teaches as an Adjunct Piano Faculty at California Baptist University.