Guest Pianist Donna Lee in Concert April 10

Pianist Donna Lee, who made her solo debut 20 years ago with the National Symphony Orchestra after winning the Young Soloist Concerto Competition, will present a concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 10, in the Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall at Illinois State University.

Tickets are $6 for general public, $5 for faculty-staff and $4 for students and senior citizens.  Tickets are available at the CPA box office from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays or by calling (309) 438-2535.

Lee, who is a piano professor at Kent State University, will give a master class at 1 p.m. Saturday in the CPA.  Admission is free.

Since her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, Lee has appeared as soloist and chamber musician at venues such as Kennedy Center's Concert Hall and Terrace Theater in Washington, D.C., Cleveland Museum of Art's Gartner Auditorium in Ohio, and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York.  Internationally, she has performed in China and Italy, and has toured extensively throughout Sweden and Japan. She has been heard inmany domestic broadcast performances as well as Swedish Radio and Voice of America, Far East. She has recorded for the Proprius and Innova labels and made her solo recording debut on "Scenes from Childhood" on the Azica label.

Lee earned her degrees from Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University (DMA), The Juilliard School (M.M.) and the University of Maryland, College Park (B.M.).  Prior to joining the Kent State faculty, she taught at Peabody Conservatory and Bucknell University, and during the summers she teaches at Interlochen Arts Camp.