Piano
Performing a wide variety of repertoire that spans the history of keyboard music from the 16th century through the present day, multi-keyboardist Patricia Lee enjoys an active career as an orchestral keyboardist, chamber musician and soloist in the Chicago area and the Midwest, and also serves as Associate Professor of Music and Director of Keyboard Studies at Saint Xavier University of Chicago. An accomplished pianist from a young age, Ms. Lee also studied harpsichord and organ, and is an alumna of the School of Music at DePaul University, Chicago, where she received the Master of Music in Performance degree while studying piano with Mary Sauer, Principal Pianist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and harpsichord with Dr. B. Lynn Hebert.
In addition to holding Principal Keyboardist positions at the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, and the New Philharmonic Orchestra (IL), Ms. Lee has also performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Music of the Baroque (Chicago) and Chicago Opera Theater orchestra. In her work with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she was featured twice as soloist on both harpsichord and organ, has performed on tour at Carnegie Hall and at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, and has participated in major recordings, including the soundtrack to Disney’s “Fantasia 2000”. She has performed under the baton of world class conductors including Daniel Barenboim, James Levine, Charles Dutoit and Ricardo Muti, and with Baroque music specialists such as Nicholas McGegan, Ton Koopman and Roger Norrington. Ms. Lee has also been featured as piano, organ and harpsichord soloist or guest artist with many other ensembles, including the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Elgin Symphony Orchestra, Frankly Music Chamber Orchestra of Milwaukee, LaCrosse Symphony Orchestra and the Park Ridge Civic Symphony. She can be heard on recordings with the Elgin Symphony on Naxos Records, with CSO trumpeter John Hagstrom on Albany Records, and on the independent CD “Lullabies”, featuring members of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra.
