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Dr. Sanghie Lee is an internationally recognized pianist, educator, and collaborative artist, currently serving as a piano faculty member and collaborative pianist at the University of North Georgia. She teaches applied piano, class piano, aural skills, music theory, keyboard musicianship, and collaborative piano. Her teaching combines high standards of technical and musical excellence with a warm, student-centered approach that fosters growth at every level.

As a teacher and mentor, Dr. Lee’s students have won awards in numerous competitions, including the Franklin Pond Chamber Music Competition, American Protégée Competition, Charleston International Competition, the Atlanta Music Club, and GMTA Auditions. Her students have performed at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Hall in New York, and many have continued on to graduate study with scholarships at respected institutions in the U.S. and South Korea.

Dr. Lee’s own performance career spans the United States, South Korea, and Europe. She has been a featured soloist with the University of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Yonsei University Symphony Orchestra, and the University of North Georgia Sinfonietta, performing concertos by Liszt, Mozart, and Beethoven. Her solo and duo performances have taken her to concert halls in New York, Cincinnati, Seoul, Daejeon, and Daegu. She has appeared as a guest artist at Washington State University, Vanderbilt University, University of Cumberlands, Charleston Southern University, and others.

Her recent solo recitals—performed as part of 1688¿ª½±Íø’s “A Little Nighthawk Music Series”—have featured thematic programs such as In Joy and Sorrow, Fall in Love with 20th Century Piano Works, Between Calmness and Passion in 19th Century Piano Works, and It’s a Love Story(Schumann). These performances have received acclaim for their expressive power and artistic depth. One recent reviewer described her playing as “breathtaking… combining both technical and musical mastery of the highest level. Brilliant performance!”

Dr. Lee is also an accomplished chamber musician and has performed over 50 chamber recitals since 2013. As the pianist of the trio Canorus, she won top prizes in the OSTA Chamber Music Competition and the CCM Chamber Music Competition. Her piano duo also received the Grand Prize at the Korea Piano Duo Association Competition. She frequently collaborates with instrumentalists and vocalists and is deeply engaged in coaching chamber ensembles, both at the university and pre-college level.

A native of Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Lee began piano at the age of five and gave her first award-winning performance at age eight. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Yonsei University under Prof. Myung-Won Shin. She later studied with Prof. Emile Naoumoff at Indiana University, earning a Performer Diploma, and completed both her Doctor of Musical Arts and Artist Diploma at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music under the guidance of Professors James Tocco and Eugene Pridonoff. Her dissertation explores Rachmaninoff’s early piano works and Chopin’s influence on the Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 and Moments Musicaux, Op. 16.

Beyond academia, Dr. Lee is an active community performer and a strong advocate for outreach. She regularly performs in community concerts across the Atlanta area and believes deeply in the value of sharing music as a tool for connection, healing, and lifelong learning.