James Lee, III

About

James Lee, III (b. 1975), in St. Joseph, Michigan cites his major composition teachers as Michael Daugherty, William Bolcom, and Bright Sheng. He was also a composition fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center where he studied with Michael Gandolfi. Since Dr. Lee's graduation from the University of Michigan in 2005 with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition, his orchestral works have been commissioned and premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony Orchestra, and the orchestras of Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Omaha, Pasadena, Memphis, Grand Rapids, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Akron, and have been conducted by such artists as Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, Michael Tilson Thomas, Juanjo Mena, David Lockington, Thomas Wilkins, and others. Mr. Lee is also a winner of a Charles Ives Scholarship and the Wladimir Lakond Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Montrose Trio, Ritz Chamber Players, and soloists such as Rochelle Sennet, who recorded his piano music on the Albany Label and Olga Kern who will premiere a new set of character pieces during the 2018-2019 school year, have performed his chamber and piano music. Mr. Lee's works have also been premiered and performed internationally in Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Russia, and Cuba. He is a Professor of Music at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD and is married to Adnéia Alves Lee of Brazil, a high school teacher of Spanish.

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