The Special Prize winner of the Anton G. Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Dr. Yoon Lee, is a concert pianist, teacher, and entrepreneur active in the New York metropolitan area. She is currently on the faculty of SUNY Purchase College and the Heifetz International Music Festival, as well as a staff pianist at The Juilliard School.

As an avid chamber musician, Yoon has taught chamber music at Manhattan School of Music Precollege, Heifetz International Music Institute, and Kneisel Hall ACMI and has performed as a guest artist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Kneisel Hall, the Heifetz International Music Institute, Robbie Collomore Chamber Music Series, and the Cayuga Chamber Concert Series, among others. Yoon Lee has collaborated with Shmuel Ashkenasi, Elmar Oliveira, Catherine Cho, Laurie Smukle, members of the Juilliard String Quartet, Borromeo String Quartet, Orion String Quartet, and Brooklyn Rider. She has also been the pianist for master classes by Leonidas Kavakos, Steven Isserlis, Frans Helmerson, and David Geringas.

Yoon has served as a jury member at the Manhattan School of Music’s Precollege Piano Concerto Competition, the Chamber Music Competition, the YMF Festival by Schubert Club, and the NFMC Junior Music Festival. She is the co-Artistic Director of Noree Chamber Soloists, a chamber ensemble she founded in 2017. Yoon received her Doctor of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music and a Graduate Diploma from The Juilliard School.