Joo-Mee Lee is a passionate and dedicated educator of musicians of all ages. She currently serves as lecturer in violin and chamber music in the Department of Music at Stanford University and as director of the Stanford New Ensemble. Previously, she was an artist-in-residence and on the violin faculty at the University of Denver and at Colorado College. She also taught at Brandeis University and New England Conservatory Preparatory School where she was a highly sought-after teacher.

Lee has a vibrant performing career as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician. As a young violinist, Lee was invited to give solo and chamber music recitals at Aspen, Banff and the Sarasota Music Festivals, and was selected as one of two Korean representatives for the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, performing in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, and Leipzig Gewandhaus. At New England Conservatory, her Tonos String Quartet was chosen as an Honors Ensemble leading to prestigious performance opportunities in Boston and Seoul. During her graduate studies, she won violinist positions with both the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and the DaVinci String Quartet with which she toured extensively giving numerous concerts and masterclasses across the U.S.

Lee holds degrees from the Royal Academy of Music in London, England and from New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston University where she was a Roman Totenberg Scholarship recipient and was awarded Pi Kappa Lambda upon graduation. Her doctoral dissertation is entitled An Analytical Study of Three String Quartets of Bernard Rands.