Pianist
Hanchien Lee has established herself as a successful soloist, recitalist, and
chamber musician. Since her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age
sixteen, she has performed throughout North America, Europe and Asia, appearing
at venues such as Steinway Hall in New York, Academy of Music, Kimmel Center in
Philadelphia and Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, and has given
recitals at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Muhlenberg College Piano
Series, Hillman Performing Arts Center, Texas International Piano Festival,
Basilica San Pietro in Italy, Centro Cultural del Antiguo in Spain and Taipei
Convention Center in Taiwan. She has appeared as soloist with the American
Elite youth orchestra, Plainfield Symphony, Taiwan National Orchestra, Chamber
Orchestra of Perugia and Poland’s Capella Cracovienses Chamber Orchestra.
Lee is the recipient of the prestigious Chi-Mei Scholarship and Clara
Ascherfeld Award. She has won first prize at the Russel C. Wonderlic Piano
Competition and top prizes at Heida Hermanns International
Piano Competition and Yamaha Piano Competition. As a
chamber musician, she has performed in many highly respected music
festivals including Sarasota, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Prussia Cove
International Music Seminar and Music Academy of the West. She is also a member
of the prize-winning quartet that was winner of the Yale School of Music
Chamber Music Competition and performed at Stony Brook University, Muhlenberg
College and Montana University, where she also conducted a master class.
Hanchien
Lee was accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music at age eleven where she studied
with Claude Frank and Eleanor Sokoloff. Following graduation from Curtis, Ms.
Lee continued her studies at Yale University with Claude Frank, earning both a Master’s
degree and an Artists’ Diploma. She holds a doctoral degree at the Peabody Conservatory
of John Hopkins University where she was under the tutelage of with Boris Slutsky.
Ms. Lee has also studied with such esteemed pianists
as Gary Graffman, Richard Goode, Jerome Lowenthal and Fou T’song. She currently
serves as a piano faculty at the Peabody Preparatory of the Johns Hopskins
University.