Joseph Lee is a current member of the New York City Ballet Orchestra, joining in 2012. Mr.

Lee began piano studies at the age of 4, violin studies at 7, and then cello at the age of 11. He won the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra concerto competition resulting in his

concerto debut, performing the Dvorak Cello Concerto in Davies Symphony Hall with conductor

Edwin Outwater. Joseph grew up in northern California where he studied with Irene Sharp. He

earned both a bachelors and masters degree in music from The Juilliard School where he studied with Joel Krosnick and Darrett Adkins. He earned a masters degree in orchestral performance studying with Alan Stepansky at The Manhattan School of Music and became a member of the New World Symphony shortly after from 2010 until 2012. As an avid chamber musician, Joseph was part of the Bonhoeffer Piano Trio having performed at the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach as well as a conference with the Music Teachers Association of California where the trio taught masterclasses in addition to their recitals. Mr. Lee has performed in a chamber music series at Barge Music in Brooklyn, was part of the Chelsea Music Festival, and has also performed and taught at the Garth Newel Music Center in Warm Springs VA. In addition to performing, Joseph has taught on the faculty at the Geneva Conservatory of Music in Manhattan. Mr. Lee plays on a 1929 Italian cello made by Cesare Candi.