A few months later, she and her family moved to New York City after she was accepted to the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School to study with Masao Kawasaki.

She then matriculated at Harvard College, majoring in Comparative Literature, and took several leaves of absences to accommodate her performing career, eventually graduating in May 2020.

[7] She was also one of the youngest performers at the EG Conference, presenting alongside other notable figures such as Mark Bittman, Esther Wojcicki, Dick Cavett, Cady Coleman, and Cameron Carpenter.

Lee has been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal Magazine,[14] the Harvard Gazette,[15] Asian Fortune.

[22] Other awards include the Bernhard and Mania Hahnloser Prize from the Verbier Festival Academy,[23] From the Top's Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award,[24] the Prinz von Hessen prize from the Kronberg Academy Violin Masterclasses,[25] and the Artist Development Fellowship from the Office for the Arts at Harvard.

[30] Previously, she was one of the youngest recipients of the Stradivari Society for several years, which generously loaned her a Nicolò Amati (c.1635-40) violin.