Pei-Shan Lee

Pianist Pei-Shan Lee has been praised by The Strad for playing that is "glittering… sensuous, tender, and luminous." The Boston Musical Intelligencer writes of her "gorgeous tone and color range… and monumental orchestral sonorities," The Boston Globe calls her "dynamic," and The Washington Post hails her as a "consummate artist."

Lee's concert career spans major halls in the U.S. and abroad, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Kennedy Center, Boston's Jordan Hall, and Severance Hall in Cleveland. She has performed in Belgium, France, Germany, Finland, Israel, Taiwan, and China, and at festivals including Mostly Mozart, Caramoor, Great Lakes, Rockport, Bowdoin, ProQuartet in Paris, the Brussels Cello Festival, the Great Wall Festival in China, Formosa Chamber Music Festival in Taiwan, and piano festivals in Spain and Russia.

A versatile musician, Lee has appeared with members of many celebrated string quartets, principal players of the world's great orchestras, and acclaimed string virtuosos worldwide. Based in Boston, she has worked with guest conductors and soloists of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and appears in the films The Portrait (featuring violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter) and Talent Has Hunger (featuring cellist Paul Katz).

Lee holds graduate degrees from the New England Conservatory and Juilliard, as well as an Artist Diploma from the Cleveland Institute. Having served on NEC's collaborative piano faculty since 2009, Lee is a dedicated artist-teacher shaping the next generation of pianists. She curates NEC's Sonata Night series, helped develop its innovative five-year dual-degree program, and created an MM program at California State University, Northridge. She is Director of Collaborative Piano at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and her doctoral thesis, The Collaborative Pianist: Balancing Roles in Partnership, remains a widely referenced resource in higher education.

Pei-Shan Lee is a Steinway Artist.