Yejin Lee

Pianist Yejin Lee has been praised for her “coloristic and poetic expressions” and “compelling and thrilling rhythmic senses.” She made her solo debut at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York with an invitation from the Annual Velia International Music Festival. She has performed as a guest artist at the Cultural Art Center in Jaen, Spain, the Tyler Recital Hall in Florida, and the Seoul Arts Center and Yong San Art Hall in Seoul, Korea. She has claimed top awards at a number of national and international competitions, including the Dallas International Piano Competition, Kingsville International Piano Competition, and the Wideman International Piano Competition. Yejin also had the privilege to perform at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg, Banff Music Festival, Gijon Music Festival in Spain, and the PianoTexas International Academy & Festival, where she shared musical inspiration with great pedagogues and pianists like Richard Goode, Dmitri Bashkirov, Stephen Hough, John O’Conor, John Perry, and Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. Yejin holds both piano performance and vocal accompanying degrees from Oberlin Conservatory with honors under Haewon Song and Philip Highfill and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves as piano faculty at Washington Conservatory of Music and guest faculty with the University Choir at George Washington University.