An experienced performer as a soloist and chamber musician, pianist Brian Lee has delighted audiences both small and large in a wide array of venues. He has appeared at Harris Concert Hall at the Aspen Music Festival, Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts in Salt Lake City, St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University, the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown (MA), George Weston Recital Hall in Toronto, and the Orpheum Theatre in Sioux City (IA), in addition to numerous churches and educational institutions. He has collaborated with many prominent artists, including cellist Joel Krosnick of the Juilliard String Quartet, mezzo-sopranos Emily Lodine and Jori Jennings, flutist Lyon Leifer, oboist Ariana Ghez, clarinetist Bharat Chandra, and violinists Stephen Clapp and David Taylor. Brian has also been featured as soloist with several orchestras, and has given premieres of works by American composers, including Gunther Schuller, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Alex Freeman.
Brian has given masterclasses, and invited as a guest performer or adjudicator at numerous educational institutions, including Carleton College, the Betty Haag Academy, Olivet Nazarene University, Wheaton College, and others. In the past year, he performed at the Steinway of Chicago's Community Concert Series, and also traveled to Helsinki, Finland as part of a recording project with composer Alex Freeman at the Sibelius Academy. In 2010-2011, Brian will make his debut as a member of The Chicago Piano Duo, along with renown pianist and Steinway artist William Phemister. He will also present solo program for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in 2011, which will be broadcast and streamed live on 98.7 WFMT-radio/online.
Formerly on the faculty of Northwestern College (Iowa), Brian is Associate Professor of Music at Moody Bible Institute, where he serves as a piano teacher, chamber music coach, classroom lecturer, and Coordinator of Piano Studies. Brian is a graduate of Wheaton College, New England Conservatory, Royal Conservatory of Music, and The Juilliard School, where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. His principal studies were with William Phemister, Gabriel Chodos, Marianna Milkis, Joseph Kalichstein, and other renowned teachers. A church musician, both as a pianist and vocalist, he and his wife Helen, an accomplished writer, are the proud parents of three sons.