Hayoung Heidi Lee

Hayoung Heidi Lee is associate professor of music history at West Chester University. She studied music history and comparative literature at the University of Washington and received her Ph.D. in musicology from Stanford University in 2011. Prior to her appointment at West Chester University, she taught at Royal Academy of Music in London, Stanford University, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Mills College, and the University of Puget Sound. Her research and teaching interests include European and Asian musical encounters, women in music, and music and travel. Her publications include “Papageno Redux: Repetition and the Rewriting of Character in Sequels to Die Zauberflöte” in The Opera Quarterly and “An Opera about the ‘Progress of Music’: Charles Burney, Domenico Corri’s The Travellers (1806) and the Macartney Embassy to China 1792–1794” in the Cambridge Opera Journal. She has also managed music festivals and educational programs for the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, and the Global Music Residency at West Chester University.