Grace Lee is a junior at Livingston High School. She started her piano studies at age six and has been taking lessons for ten years. Grace is a student of Carmela Cecere of Chatham. A recipient of many awards, Grace was selected to perform in the Suburban Music Study Club’s Young Artists Invitational Festival, which was held in the Chase Room of the Madison Library as well as recitals for the New Jersey Music Educators Association. She was a winner in competitions sponsored by the Piano Teachers Society of America (PTSA) in the Composer Choice, Ethnic Heritage, Etude and Zayde-Hambro Piano Ensemble categories. As a result, she was a featured performer in the PTSA’s Winners’ Festival held in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall for the past several years. In addition, Grace was chosen to perform a work written by her teacher, which was commissioned by the PTSA in celebration of their 20th Anniversary last year. Grace volunteers each week as an organist at the Chapel of Saint Mary’s Hospital in Orange. She also accompanies her school chorus and on occasion, has accompanied the Adult Choir of the Saint Patrick Church in Chatham. Grace’s long-range plans are focused on a career in dentistry. Her hobbies are reading books, watching movies, cross-stitching and collecting stamps and coins from other countries.

Grace Lee was a winner in the 2002 Fourth Annual Andrew De Grado Piano Competition in the soloist category with her performance of Barcarolle by Chopin and Scherzo in E flat Minor by Griffes.