Chi-Jo Lee

Pianist Chi-Jo Lee is an emerging voice in the classical music landscape. Her playing has been described as “virtuosic… with impressive grace” (San Diego Union-Tribune) and that her performance was “delivered with brio and apt abandon” (The Santa Barbara Independent). During the 2024-25 season, Chi-Jo will perform the Ravel Piano Concerto with conductor Stephane Deneve and the Colburn Orchestra, Grieg Piano Concerto with conductor Chan Wang at the National Concert Hall in Taiwan, recitals at the Ventura Music Festival and ECHO Chamber Series, chamber music performances at the La Jolla Music Society and Le Salon de Musiques, and a recording of the music of Carl Czerny to be released on Naxos’ Romantic Piano Series. Additionally, she has engaged in collaborative projects with the Los Angeles Opera and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Chi-Jo is a prize winner at The Wideman Piano competition, The Odyssiad Festival and Competition, and the concerto competitions at Indiana University and Colburn School. She was recently a semi-finalist at The Gurwitz Competition in the United States and a candidate at the ARD Competition in Germany. Her piano trio was the 2022 winner of the Eslite Chamber Music Audition. Chi-Jo is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma in piano performance at the Colburn Conservatory of Music with Fabio Bidini, where she is also a keyboard instructor for the Colburn Academy. Prior to her time at Colburn, Chi-Jo studied under the guidance of legendary pianist André Watts at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.