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). In recent seasons, she performed with conductors Stéphane Denève, James Conlon, and Chan Wang in the United States and Taiwan. Gave 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 regularly engages in collaborative projects with the Los Angeles Opera and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

Chi-Jo is a prize winner at The Wideman International Piano competition, International Maestro Piano competition (Taiwan), The Odyssiad Festival and Competition, and the concerto competitions at Indiana University and The Colburn School. She was a semi-finalist at The Gurwitz International Competition in the United States and a quarter-final candidate at the prestigious 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 an instructor for the Colburn Academy and Colburn Community School. Prior to her time at Colburn, Chi-Jo studied under the guidance of legendary pianist André Watts at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.