Pianist Nathan Lee is a young artist who connects with his audiences by sharing a depth of musical expression well beyond his years. He was recently honored with the special Tabor Foundation Award at the 2019 Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland.

Mr. Lee has appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the Buffalo Philharmonic on NPR’s "From the Top," the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río in Mexico, and Daejeon Philharmonic in Korea.

Mr. Lee won First Prize in the 2016 Young Concert Artists (YCA) International Auditions and holds the Mortimer Levitt Piano Chair. He made his New York debut at age sixteen in The Peter Marino Concert, opening the YCA Series at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, with additional support from the Paul A. Fish Memorial Fund. The Korean Concert Society Prize sponsored Nathan’s sold-out, critically-acclaimed Kennedy Center debut in Washington, DC, a co-presentation of YCA and Washington Performing Arts. He appeared on the YCA “Encores” Series at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York last season, in a program that included the New York premiere of composer Chris Rogerson’s ’Til It Was Dark. In recital this season, Nathan will perform at the Buffalo Chamber Music Society and the Sunday Musicale Series in New Jersey.

Nathan Lee began playing the piano at the age of six and made his orchestral debut at the age of nine. He is from the Seattle area, where he studied with Sasha Starcevich. Mr. Lee has also worked with Craig Sheppard, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Ilana Vered. He is a recent graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, where he was a student of Robert McDonald.