Assistant Professor
Director of the NDSU Wind Symphony and Music Education

E-Mail: daniel.lee.3@ndsu.edu
Office: 227 Music Education Building

Degrees

• D.M.A., Texas Tech University (Wind Conducting)
• M.M., Colorado State University (Music Education and Wind Conducting)
• B.M.E., University of Colorado at Boulder

Dr. Daniel Lee joined the faculty at North Dakota State University to serve as the Director of the Wind Symphony in August 2024. Prior to joining the NDSU, Dr. Lee served as the Assistant Director of Bands at Kennesaw State University, conducting the KSU Wind Symphony and teaching music education courses. In addition to his duties at KSU, Dr. Lee also served as a conductor with the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestras for the 2023-2024 season. During his doctoral program, Dr. Lee was a Graduate Part-Time Instructor at Texas Tech University, teaching and assisting with all aspects of the concert and athletic band programs as well as the undergraduate conducting courses. While at TTU, he was awarded the Student Academic Leadership Award for the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and was a recipient of the James D. and Mary Hazlewood Memorial Graduate Fellowship. His recent publications and presentations include presenting a session on wind repertoire at the 2024 GMEA conference (“Repertoire Roundtable: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We’re Going”), presenting at the 2022 TMEA Poster Session (“Relationships Between Conducting Course Experiences and Attitudes Toward Other Academic Courses”), an article in the Instrumentalist (April 2020, “The Ensemble Pianist”), and a lesson plan published on the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy resources page (“Introduction to Modes”).

Dr. Lee has over a decade of experience teaching band and orchestra at the middle and high school levels, and has conducted both opera and musical theatre (including two shows in collaboration with the TTU School of Theatre and Dance) throughout his career. Originally from the Denver area, Dr. Lee has taught in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Texas, and Georgia. He holds memberships in Kappa Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Kappa Phi, and is an Honorary Member of Phi Mu Alpha, Tau Beta Sigma, and Kappa Kappa Psi. Dr. Lee earned his D.M.A. in Wind Conducting at Texas Tech University with Dr. Sarah McKoin, his M.M. (in music education and conducting) at Colorado State University with J. Steven Moore and Wes Kenney, and his B.M.E. from the University of Colorado at Boulder with Prof. Allan McMurray.