Nara Lee is appointed organ scholar for 2018–2019 for St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville, Tennessee.
Lee is from South Korea and recently completed the Master of Music degree in organ performance and sacred music at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana, where he studied organ with Janette Fishell. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in church music at the Seoul Theological University, Seoul, South Korea.
Nara has been awarded prizes in several competitions, including third prize at the Asia Organ Competition (2017) and second prize at the Strader Organ Competition (2015). He was also a finalist at the Sursa American Organ Competition (2016). Nara is an active composer and his sacred choral works have been published in South Korea. As a church musician, Nara has worked for churches since he was 13.
