Pianist Kaju Lee has performed 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. As a collaborator, she is noted for her sensitive playing, colorful timbres, expressive tone, and her ability to “blend the sound and make music together” with other fine musicians.
Currently, Dr. Lee is Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy and Collaborative Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, where she oversees the piano/keyboard area and teaches Applied Piano, Class Piano, Piano Pedagogy, and Collaborative Piano. She is also on the piano faculty at the prestigious Interlochen Summer Arts Camp. She has taught and/or collaborated at Georgia College (Milledgeville, Georgia), Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas), the Texas Young Artists Competition, 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 also adjudicated for several music competitions, including the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities Piano Competition, the South Carolina Music Teachers Association, the Houston Music Teachers Association, the Nacogdoches Sonatina Festival (Texas), the Conroe Music Teachers Association (Texas), the Cypress Creek Music Teachers Association (Texas), the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Piano Competition (Georgia), and the Bridging the Gap Music Festival and Competition in the Philippines.