After graduating from the University of Melbourne with an honours degree in Music Performance and a Diploma of Education, Lee studied in Florence, Italy with Antonio Moretti-Pananti.

Lee has won a variety of awards and accolades for opera singing. She was a finalist in the Herald Sun Aria, Covent Garden National Studio Scholarship, German Operatic Award, Australian Youth Aria and winner of the Austral Salon National Scholarship. Lee was also awarded a scholarship to perform in the Bel Canto Festival in Holland, and was invited to perform in the Daniel Ferro Program and Festival in Tuscany.

Operatic roles include: Mimi in La Boheme, Michaela in Carmen, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Nursing Sister in Suor Angelica for Melbourne Opera Company; Clorinda in La Cenerentola (LOM), Lisa in La Sonnambula (BelCantoFestival), Olympia in Erwin und Elmire (iOpera), Prima Voce in Turandot (Puccini Festival Australia), Soprano Lead in Triptych (Melbourne Fringe Festival) and covered Frasquita in Carmen(MCO), Mabel in Pirates of Penzance (MCO) and Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte (Victorian Opera).

Lee appeared alongside conductor Richard Gill as a soloist in ’Sing Your Own Opera’ for Victorian Opera and Orchestra Victoria and sang the role of Hero in the workshop of Richard Mills’ opera Love of the Nightingale for Victorian Opera.

This year Lee will appear as Mimi in La Boheme with Melbourne Opera and as Violetta on a national tour of La Traviata with Co Opera.