She is a registered teacher with the Suzuki Association of the Americas and has maintained a studio of violin students throughout her career. Lee has taught and played in various orchestras and summer festivals among which have included the Boulder Philharmonic, Cheyenne Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, Aspen Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina and Music at Penn's Woods in State College, Pennsylvania. She was a member of the Epcot Center All-American College Orchestra in Orlando, Florida and also spent three summers in the beautiful mountains of Summit County, Colorado as a member of the National Repertory Orchestra. It was this orchestra with whom she traveled to the Far East to perform at the 1988 Olympic Arts Festival in Seoul, Korea as well as perform concerts in Taiwan and Japan. Lee has free-lanced in Cincinnati and Denver and moved to Albuquerque, NM in 1989 to become a member of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque. She is a founding member of the New Life Symphony Orchestra Southwest and plays in various venues throughout the area. With her husband, Jae, she serves as Co-Presidents of the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Parent Association and have three children. Lee will be performing with Willy Sucre & Friends on January 23, 2011. |
Violinist Julanie Collier Lee began playing the violin at the age of five in Lexington, Kentucky. She attended Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina where she studied with Jerri Lucktenberg and graduated with a B.A. in Music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory studying with Kurt Sassmanshaus.