Isaac Lee

Organist Isaac Lee is a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at Juilliard studying with Paul Jacobs. Lee earned his master’s from Yale University, where he received the 2022 Robert Baker Prize for performance excellence and the 2023 Director’s Prize for research excellence. He was one of the 2024 winners of the American Guild of Organists Commissioning project, in which he collaborated with Singaporean composer Creng Jin Koh to create a new organ work. Lee recently partnered with Singapore Symphony’s artist in residence Chloe Chua on a program of virtuoso violin music, which will be released soon.

Lee, who is organ scholar at Church of the Heavenly Rest, was the Wilson Family Sacred Music Intern at Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City from 2021 to 2023. He was also chapel organist at Marquand Chapel, Yale University.

Prior education includes degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Royal Danish Academy of Music. While in Denmark, Lee completed a fellowship at Roskilde Cathedral, home to a historic 1555 Raphaelis organ.

A native of Singapore, Lee is deeply passionate about raising the profile of the instrument and awareness of its literature back home. Past collaborations in Singapore include Pipe Up!, an organ chamber music series at Victoria Concert Hall, freelance work for the Singapore Symphony Group, and a stint as assistant director to Organ Academy Singapore. He was also awarded a National Arts Council grant to produce the digital project Organ in the Time of Cholera.