University of South Florida

School of Music

USF College of The Arts

Jodie Lee

Collaborative Pianist 

Email: lee114@usf.edu
Phone: (443) 904-6275 

Korean-born pianist Jodie Lee was appointed as a Collaborative Pianist at USF’s Music Faculty in 2021 where she works with students and plays for their degree recitals. She received most of her musical training in Toronto where she studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She was a scholarship recipient of the Levi (Le) A. Stark Piano Award, the Clara Aschfeld Accompanying Award, the Felix Galimir Chamber Music Award, the Jackson Trovell Memorial Award, and the Colonel Peacock Scholarship given by the Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation.  
 
As a soloist and chamber musician, Jodie has been featured at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music, George Weston Recital Hall at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, Toronto’s Heliconian Hall, Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine, the Palm Court Arts Complex of the OC Great Park in California, Anyang Foundation for Culture & Arts Center in Korea, and the Rolston Recital Hall at the Banff Centre in Canada.  
 
She earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from the University of Toronto and her Master of Music degree in Piano Performance at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. During her time at Peabody she worked as an accompanist at Peabody Conservatory and Peabody Preparatory in the string department. She also has completed her second Master’s degree in Collaborative Piano and Chamber Music at Rice University in Houston, where she worked as a staff pianist after graduating. Her teachers and mentors include James Tweedie, Marietta Orlov, Yong Hi Moon, and Virginia Weckstrom.