2024 Adjudicators

Canadian pianist Joy Lee enjoys a multi-faceted career as a collaborative pianist, teacher, soloist and adjudicator. She is a passionate advocate of music and has performed at events and venues ranging from the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C. (as part of US President Barack Obama's inauguration celebration), to the Banff Centre for the Arts, to performance spaces in Inuvik and Yellowknife in Canada's Northwest Territories.

Dr. Lee received BMus and MMus in solo piano from the University of Toronto and her love of the voice and its literature led her to pursue her second MMus in collaborative piano studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), as well as her Doctorate at the University of Toronto.

She is a Lecturer of Music and Worship Arts at Tyndale University and is dedicated to educating the next generation of musicians. She is a winner of the prestigious 2018 Gwendolyn Williams Koldofsky Prize (University of Toronto) and 2017 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition (2nd) for her collaborative work.

In April 2023, she made her Carnegie Hall (NYC) debut as part of the Canada at Carnegie Concert. Dr. Lee and Stéphanie McKay-Turgeon, soprano, were invited to research and perform the music of the French composer, Henri Dutilleux, at the Maison Dutilleux-Joy in Candes-Saint- Martin, France, in November 2023.

Currently, Dr. Lee collaborates with the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto, Graduate Choral Conducting Seminar and MacMillan Singers (University of Toronto), as well as Tyndale Community Choir (Tyndale University), and serves on the Board of Directors of the North Toronto Songbirds.