Flutist Jiyoung Lee is an award-winning flutist and educator. She won the Cambridge International and Charleston International Music competitions and performed at the National Flute Convention in Japan as a Geumpa Flute Ensemble member. She was awarded the Academic Scholarship of Dean's Incentive Grant. Also, she received the Graduate Award Full Remission of Tuition at Duquesne University, a professional artist diploma at Temple University, the assistant teaching award, the special talent award, the K.Herberger Music Scholarship, and the Eriene Peggy Lamb Music Scholarship at Arizona State University. As an active soloist, She was a principal flute in the Korea Philharmonic Orchestra and has performed regularly in both the U.S. and Korea.
Recently, Jiyoung Lee finished the coursework for her Doctoral in flute performance from Arizona State University. She was a director of the Arizona Community Flute Ensemble and a teaching assistant in the ASU flute studio and woodwind Lab class. She was employed as a Tucson Symphony sub flute player, worked as a flute instructor in high school, and is a board member of the Arizona Flute Society and Korea Flute Society. In addition, She won first place in the recently challenged American Protégé International Competition and has a winner recital at Carnegie Hall in New York in December 2023.