Portland Metropolitan Region

Abigail Lee

Regional Director

Abigail Lee is a senior at Westview High School in Portland, Oregon. She began playing violin at age 7 and currently studies with Hae-Jin Kim. Abigail has been a part of the Portland Youth Philharmonic Association for 8 years and currently serves as Principal Second Violin of the Philharmonic Orchestra and Camerata PYP Orchestra. 

As an active soloist, Abigail performed with the Jewish Community Orchestra as a winner of its Young Artist Competition and is the YAD! Zorro Award recipient of Cognizart by MetroArts YAD! Competition, which she also performed at as a winner. Also, she has won several competitions including the Eugene Symphony Guild Young Artist Competition, the American Protégé: International Piano and Strings Competition, the Grand Metropolitan International Music Competition, the OMTA Jeannette Scott Briggs Scholarship Award Competition, the OMTA Trula Whelan Concerto Festival, the OMTA Orchestral Instrumental Scholarship Award Competition, and she was also the finalist of the 2022 and 2024 Oregon ASTA Solo Competition. 

Alongside her solo studies, she was honored to be selected to the 2024 and 2026 OMEA All-State HS Honors Orchestra as Assistant Concertmaster and Concertmaster, and the 2025 NAfME All-NW HS Honors Orchestra. Also, she has played in numerous chamber music groups and won first place in the 2026 OMEA State Championship in Large Ensemble Division. She was selected to perform at the CMNW Chamber Masterclass series led by Alexi Kenny and the Brentano String Quartet. In past summers, she attended the 2024 Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), the 2025 Summer Violin Institute at Northwestern’s Bienen School of Music where she performed in masterclasses with esteemed faculty Blair Milton, Paul Kantor, I-Hao Lee, and Ann Setzer, and the 2025 OrpheusPDX Pathways Program, where she played as assistant concertmaster with professional musicians. Also, she spent this past summer of 2026 at Bowdoin International Music Festival and Center Stage Strings. 

Due to her passion for music, she is actively involved in non-profit community music education organizations: Project Prelude and Music4Harmony. She currently resides as the Regional Director of Project Prelude and the Executive Director with Music4Harmony. Besides music, Abigail loves spending time with her family, reading, and hanging out with her friends.

(Fall 2026)