Daniel Lee
Piano and Trumpet lessons from a Teacher in Vienna VA at lee music studios
Hi, my name is Daniel Lee, and I hold a Bachelor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music. My musical life began at age three, when I started studying piano and quickly learned the value of focused, daily practice. That early discipline opened the door to a lifetime of exploring composers, styles, instruments, and musical traditions.
In my family, learning to read, understand, and perform music has always been more than a skill. It is a tradition, a discipline, and a way of seeing the world. I am proud to continue that tradition by helping my students build the same foundation: strong technique, musical confidence, curiosity, and the ability to approach many different kinds of music with understanding.
In my family, learning to read, understand, and perform music has always been more than a skill. It is a tradition, a discipline, and a way of seeing the world. I am proud to continue that tradition by helping my students build the same foundation: strong technique, musical confidence, curiosity, and the ability to approach many different kinds of music with understanding.
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I have been fortunate to perform with many different groups as a keyboardist, pianist, trumpeter, and percussionist. Bands and projects such as Whop Frazier’s Friends by Choice, BoogieHawg, and many others have given me a deep and varied musical background to draw from.
Music has taken me into many different worlds: from smoke-filled clubs in Baltimore, to wedding ceremonies where I played the exit fanfare as the bride and groom left the church, to recording studios at 2:00 a.m. where the pressure was high, studio time was expensive, and the part had to be recorded before the budget ran out. |
It has also taken me to Philadelphia to ghost compose commercial music for major networks, and across Europe with André Previn, performing the same program night after night in a different city almost every day for two months.
At Curtis, I studied theory in the same classes as Lang Lang, watched Hilary Hahn perform as part of an ordinary week, and prepared for performances under world-famous conductors. That environment was a pressure cooker, but it taught me how hard I could work, how to work correctly, and how to prepare at a professional level.
This is the experience I bring into my small studio in Vienna. When you study here, you are not only learning notes, technique, and theory. You are drawing from a lifetime of real musical experience: the stage, the studio, the rehearsal room, the concert hall, and everything in between.
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Mr. Lee's teachers have included Ed Cooper, Emerson Head, Adel Sanchez (former principal trumpet NSO), Gilbert Johnson (former principal trumpet Philadelphia Orchestra) and Roger Voisin (former principal trumpet Boston Symphony Orchestra).
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He has been the first prize winner of the Music Teachers National Association Selmer Brass Competition, and first prize winner of both the High School Division and College Jazz Division of the George Mason University International Trumpet Competition. Lee has been co-principal trumpet of the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Institute Orchestra, and, with the Symphony Orchestra of the Curtis Institute, has performed in Europe and the United States alongside countless well known and respected musicians.
Daniel was named Outstanding Band Member by Richard Sanger while a student at Thoreau Middle School, received the Sousa Award at Madison High School under Carl J. Bianchi, and was named the Outstanding Wind Performer at Boston University before entering Curtis.
Daniel was named Outstanding Band Member by Richard Sanger while a student at Thoreau Middle School, received the Sousa Award at Madison High School under Carl J. Bianchi, and was named the Outstanding Wind Performer at Boston University before entering Curtis.