Jon Lee

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), San Francisco, CA
    • Artist Diploma, Chamber Music 2026
    • Performance Studies Certificate, Keyboard Performance 2024
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
    • Master of Engineering in Computer Science 2003
    • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 2002

Principal Teachers

  • Yoshikazu Nagai, SFCM 2017–present
  • David Deveau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1999–2003
  • Additional studies with Boris Slutsky, Daniel Phillips, Nina Lee, John Novacek, Paul Hersh, Alexander Korsantia, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Ken Hamao, Bernadene Blaha

Masterclasses

  • Emanuel Ax, Leon Fleisher, Paul Lewis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Jerome Lowenthal, Russell Sherman

Ethea Trio

Selected Performances

  • Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, Chicago, IL coming 2027
  • Fallbrook Music Society, Fallbrook, CA coming 2027
  • Banff Chamber Music Residency, Rolston Recital Hall, Banff, Alberta 2026
    • Including Dai Fujikura’s Nui and Joanne Na’s Pung (premiere), prepared and recorded with the composers
  • St. Lawrence Chamber Music Seminar International Showcase, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, CA 2026
  • UCSF Chancellor’s Concert Series, San Francisco, CA 2025

Programs

  • “Lignes de fuite”: French trios of 1914–23 (Fauré, Tailleferre, Ravel), 4 performances
  • “An Unforgettable Man”: Mendelssohn op. 66 with movements by C. and R. Schumann and Bach, 3 performances
  • “Quasi una Ballata”: three trios linked by storytelling (Haydn, Novák, Schumann), 3 performances
  • “Schumann: 1851”: solo, duo and trio works from a single year, with Dimitri Murrath, viola
  • “Echoes Across Time”: Haydn to Ravel by way of Pärt’s Mozart-Adagio, classical material heard through a modern lens

Performances

Selected Solo Recitals and Performances

  • Spectrum Chamber Music Society, Fort Worth, TX 2024–present
    • Recurring piano chamber programs with Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra musicians, including wind chamber music, a solo recital, and Copland Appalachian Spring Suite for 13 Instruments under Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Most recently Robert Denham, Transformatio (2026 Spectrum Composition Award winner), with Oscar Garcia-Montoya, trumpet.
  • Apex Arts League, Southlake, TX 2026
  • Benicia Chamber Players, piano trio, Bay Area, CA 2024, 2026
  • SFCM Chamber Music Tuesday, Barbro Osher Recital Hall, San Francisco, CA 2024–2026
    • Collaborators: Kim Kashkashian, Stella Chen, Clive Greensmith, Nicholas Phan, Telegraph Quartet, Jonathan Brown
  • Noontime Concerts, solo and chamber, Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2022–2025
  • KUSC Arcade Live! broadcast with Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Studio G, San Francisco, CA 2025
  • SFCM Faculty Artist Series with Jonathan Vinocour, Barbro Osher Recital Hall, San Francisco, CA 2025
  • Piano Celebration Week, solo recital, Texas A&M Performing Arts Center, Corpus Christi, TX 2024
  • Salle Cortot and Musée de la Vie romantique, solo performances (AIM Paris), Paris, France 2023
  • Music for Food benefit concert, collaborative performance, Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco, CA 2023
  • Embassy of the Slovak Republic, solo recital, Washington, DC 2022

Concerto Performances

  • SFCM Orchestra, Edwin Outwater, Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco, CA coming 2027
    • Beethoven Piano Concerto no. 4 in G major, op. 58
  • Nova Vista Symphony, Tony Quartuccio, De Anza Visual & Performing Arts Center, Cupertino, CA 2024
    • Mozart Piano Concerto no. 20 in d minor, K. 466
  • Calgary Civic Symphony, Rolf Bertsch, Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary, Alberta 2023
    • Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
  • Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, TCU and Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, TX 2021, 2022
    • Movements of Beethoven Piano Concerto no. 4 and Prokofiev Piano Concerto no. 3
  • Boston Pops Orchestra, Keith Lockhart, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 2001
    • Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no. 1 in B♭ major, op. 23, Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso

Orchestra Performances

  • SFCM Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas and Edwin Outwater, San Francisco, CA 2023–2026
  • New Music Ensemble, Nicole Paiement, Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco, CA 2023
  • Club Foot Orchestra, Deirdre McClure, SF Silent Film Festival, Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA 2023

Recent Festivals

  • Banff Chamber Music Residency, Banff, Alberta 2026
  • Bay PianoFest, San Francisco, CA 2026
  • St. Lawrence Chamber Music Seminar, Stanford, CA 2019, 2026
  • Amalfi Coast Piano Festival, Maiori, Italy 2022, 2024
  • PianoTexas, Fort Worth, TX 2018, 2021

Honors

  • SFCM Piano Concerto Competition, First Prize 2026
  • SFCM Chamber Music Honors Ensemble, Ethea Trio 2024
  • Kaufman-Angove and Andrew Imbrie Scholarships, SFCM 2024–2026
  • Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition, First Prize 2022

Additional amateur first prizes: San Diego International (2022), Washington International (2019); Gold Medal, Seattle International (2019)

Jury

  • Spectrum Composition Award 2026
  • Burlingame Music Club Young Musicians’ Competition 2024–2026

Work Experience

  • Co-founder, Chamber Sessions, San Francisco, CA 2026–present
  • Director of festival planning, Hawaiʻi Chamber Music Festival (HCMF), Honolulu, HI 2024–present
  • Digital communications director, Amalfi Coast Music & Arts Festival, Maiori, Italy 2023–present
  • Freelance website designer and developer, San Francisco, CA 2022–present
  • Teaching artist, SFCM Pre-College, San Francisco, CA 2026
  • Chamber music coach & program coordinator, San Domenico Strings, San Anselmo, CA 2025
  • Teaching artist, John Adams Young Composers Program, Berkeley, CA 2022–2025
  • Engineering manager, Apple, Cupertino, CA 2011–2022

Skills and Projects