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Lydia Lee
Applied Music - Piano, Dept. Accompanist
Lydia Youn C. Lee, a piano faculty member at College of the Canyons, holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from University of Southern California with a major in Piano Performance, with Dr. Stewart Gordon, and minors in Music History, Music Education, and Electro-Acoustic. Additionally, Dr. Lee has received a Master of Music degree from U.S.C. in Piano Performance. She started her musical training at a young age and continued through Seoul Art School in Korea.
Dr. Lee has received recognition for her playing in many concert halls as a concert pianist, chamber music performer, synthesizer performer, and accompanist. She has performed four solo piano recitals in the Los Angeles area, as well as with the USC Wood-Wind Quintet. Her various appearances in choir concerts as an accompanist, include performances at Ebell Theatre, Wilshire United Methodist Church. Dr. Lee has also been a pianist for musical shows such as “Big River’” at the Epic Center of College of the Canyons and “Libby” at Cinegrill Theatre of Hollywood.
She has been teaching piano, keyboards, accompaniment, music theory, and piano literature for more than 10 years. In addition, she has been directing and arranging music for church choirs and programming sequence of synthesizer.
Dr. Lee is a member of PI KAPPA LAMBDA (National Music Honor Society), and Music Teachers Association of California.
