Dr. Kaju Lee

Pianist Kaju Lee has built a national and international career, performing solo and collaborative repertoire in Australia, Austria, Canada, the Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, and throughout the United States. Her performances have been broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Radio Korea (Seattle, Washington), WRGC (NPR in Milledgeville, Georgia), and the Busan Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation in South Korea. 

Recent significant performances include the Mozart Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 9 in E-flat Major, K. 271, with the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, South Africa's premier orchestra, in Durban City Hall (South Africa). The classical web magazine ArtSMart, which covers the arts in Durban and surrounding areas in South Africa, stated of this performance:

"Kaju Lee delivered this rapid and brilliant music with skill and aplomb. Her performance was delicate and it was much to the taste of the audience, and she and the orchestra were given prolonged applause at the end."

Currently, Dr. Lee is Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy and Collaborative Piano at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, where she oversees the keyboard area and teaches Applied Piano, Piano Pedagogy, Class Piano and Collaborative Piano.  She recently launched the UW-Platteville Collegiate chapter of MTNA (Music Teachers National Association), for which she serves as faculty advisor.  She is also on the piano faculty at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Camp and serves as the MTNA Composition Competition and Young Artist Competition Wisconsin State Coordinator. She has taught and/or collaborated at Georgia College (Milledgeville, Georgia), Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas), the Texas Young Artists Competition, the Atlanta Flute Club, the Patti and Allan Herbert Frost School of Music Program (Salzburg, Austria), the Choral Symphony Society in New York City, and the Pre-College Division of the Manhattan School of Music.  She has been invited to adjudicate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Beethoven Piano Competition and Shain Competition for Woodwind Piano Duos, MTNA South Carolina State’s Performance Competition, Wisconsin Music Teachers National Association’s Badger Competition, South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities’ Piano Competition, and Houston Music Teachers Association’s Piano Competition, among others. 

In 2022, she recorded a CD with Daniel Rowland (tuba) of commissioned works, titled Widening Circles, and a CD titled 100 Years of Music for Cello and Piano with New Zealand cellist Emily Duffill. 

Lee completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she studied with internationally-renowned teacher Anne Epperson. She also holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and McGill University in Montréal. 

For more information, visit www.kajuleepiano.com and follow the UW-Platteville Piano Studio on Instagram: @uwp_pioneerpiano