Doreen Lee is Visiting Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at the University of Iowa. She has performed with notable artists such as violist Geraldine Walther, Colorado Symphony Orchestra Principal hornist Michael Thornton, flutists Christina Jennings and Katherine Kemler, and cellist Johannes Moser, among others. She is also the pianist of the du Toit/Lee Duo, formed in collaboration with flutist Cobus du Toit. The duo made their international debut in the summer of 2019 at the Australian Flute Festival, hosted at the Sydney Conservatory of Music. She was a featured soloist for the Mobile Symphony Orchestra’s concert cycle of Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals.  Doreen performed as guest faculty and served as guest clinician for the Orvieto Musica festival hosted in Orvieto, Italy in 2021 and 2022. In addition to her national and international performances, Doreen is also featured on Jacques Castérède’s Complete Flute Works, a three CD set released by Naxos Records in 2019 and 2020.  

Doreen received her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano at the University of Colorado Boulder, studying with Margaret McDonald and Alexandra Nguyen. She specialized in solo piano performance under the tutelage of Walter Ponce at the University of California Los Angeles, and went on to earn her Masters in Music at the Peabody Institute with Benjamin Pasternack. She was selected to perform in master classes for pianist and music theorist Robert Levin at the Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg. As a collaborative pianist, Doreen has received instruction from members of the Takács, Cassatt, and Tokyo Quartets as well as Jean Barr, Anne Epperson, and Jonathan Feldman. She has participated in various music festivals including the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Music Academy of the West.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Iowa, Doreen served as Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano and Piano at the University of South Alabama, Adjunct Instructor of Collaborative Piano at Colorado State University, as well as Lecturer of Collaborative Piano at the University of Colorado Boulder.