​Pianist Marian Lee is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Delaware and is president of the Delaware State Music Teachers Association. Previously, Dr. Lee was a visiting assistant professor of piano at the University of Iowa and a guest lecturer at the 2006 Iowa Music Teachers Association state conference. She has taught piano at The Juilliard School and piano literature and music appreciation at The Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Lee made her New York City debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall as winner of the 1995 Artists International Award. She has appeared internationally as soloist with the Moscow Sinfonietta, Pacific Ocean Orchestra, Azerbaijan State Philharmonic, Brjansk City Chamber Orchestra and Orquestra Filarmônica do Espírito Santo, and she was featured in a nationally televised broadcast in Tchaikovsky Hall. In liaison with the U.S. Department of State, Dr. Lee has also served as music ambassador for American contemporary music in Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Poland. Additional concert highlights have taken place in Austria, Brazil, Byelorussia, Estonia, Italy, France, Thailand and Lincoln Center. Locally, Dr. Lee has performed orchestral piano with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra.

An enthusiast of 20th-century music, Dr. Lee is frequently invited to perform at international contemporary music festivals and has appeared with such distinguished ensembles as Continuum and the Seattle Chamber Players. She has given numerous world and U.S. premieres by contemporary composers from Russia, France, the Baltic republics and the United States. Recent professional activities include a guest lecture at the 2009 Delaware State Music Teachers Association state convention and a tour of the North East with saxophonist Kenneth Tse.

Dr. Lee made her initial concert debut in high school performing with Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and Flint Symphony Orchestra in Michigan. She entered The Juilliard School as a scholarship student receiving Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in piano performance under the guidance of Gyorgy Sandor and Seymour Lipkin. Subsequently, she was awarded the coveted Fulbright Grant to study with Naum Shtarkman at the Moscow Conservatory in what was then the Soviet Union. During her three-year stay, Dr. Lee witnessed the fall of the Soviet Union and toured extensively within the former USSR. Upon her return to the United States, Dr. Lee completed her doctoral degree at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University with Boris Slutsky.

Dr. Lee resides in Middletown, Del. with her husband and son.