ABOUT ANDREW

Andrew’s creative work spans photography, videography, livestreaming, production, and media relations. He has produced conferences, festivals, performances, and a range of live-events ranging from an audience of 50 people to over 12,000. His work has been featured in local, regional and national print and digital advertising campaigns. During the pandemic he successfully produced several documentaries, debates and content for streaming and local television. He is adept at running media training for corporate executives and has successfully produced several award winning documentaries and satellite media tours for clients. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today and other national publications.

As a musician, Lee has performed across the United States in some of America's greatest venues as a conductor, pianist and violinist including: The White House, George Washington's Masonic Temple and Carnegie Hall.

Andrew’s work with DC Strings Workshop, a non-profit he founded in 2017 and scaled from inception to $3M in support, in just 6 years served thousands of students, produced hundreds of orchestra concerts and recitals which led to features in local and national media outlets. This also included orchestral and performance appearances at The Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks and a partnership with the National Park Service. DC Strings later became the DC Strings Orchestra and The Accord Symphony Orchestra (a professional orchestra) with anywhere from 10 to 20 concerts in a typical concert series. Partnerships included local universities, area choirs, Smithsonian museums, Morgan/Howard/George Washington University, DOES, DC Parks & Recreation, DC Public Libraries and more.

He is most proud of being DC Strings being awarded a Learn24 grant which enabled him and fellow teachers to deliver instruments to students during the pandemic, door-to-door. A partnership with DC Public Schools led to a +3-years summer music camps across 6-locations for more than 300 DC elementary/middle school aged youth to access music and the arts, to great acclaim. Andrew also is proud to have some of his young students featured on the front/back of a Kit-Kat bar celebrating young musicians as part of Black Music Month across the country. This success exemplifies his unique ability to not only provide stewardship and leadership over the arts, but to galvanize patrons, donors, and staff to move transformational initiatives forward. 

Since 2017, Lee has also served as Operations and Personnel Manager for the Colour of Music Festival. In this role he was responsible for hiring more than +70 orchestral musicians and leading all aspects of logistics and planning for a touring orchestra ensemble, including a series of concerts, masterclasses, performances and events. Several orchestra tours have taken the orchestra to Nashville, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Sacramento, Atlanta, Charleston, New York, and Washington, DC among other cities. In 2018, Lee was selected to serve as an Orchestral Liaison to the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble comprised of leading African-American and Latino musicians from around the world for the famed Annual Sphinx Competition, and is proud to have returned for 4-years. He has also served as a coordinator for the Gateways Music Festival at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.

Lee has performed as a violinist with the Colour of Music Festival in Charleston, SC and Ray Chew's "Night of Inspiration" at Carnegie Hall where he collaborated with world-class musicians and soloists including Donnie McClurkin, Yolanda Adams, Dionne Warwick, and Shirley Caesar.

In summer 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, Andrew was selected to perform with the United States Air Force as a member of the orchestra featuring famed violinist Joshua Bell. Andrew has performed with several area orchestras performing in violin sections and conducting a local chamber orchestra at St. Columba’s. His musical journey has taken him from the APOLLO THEATRE TO HOWARD THEATRE and more. Andrew performed on tour with the Boston Pops in a 5-state tour which was a life-changing experience for him. He returned to Carnegie Hall in December 2024 to perform as part of Ray Chew’s famed “Night of Inspiration.”

In June 2024, the League of American Orchestras selected Andrew as one of thirty arts administrators for its prestigious Orchestra Management Essentials program. The program is widely considered the orchestra field's premier program for cultivating the potential of rising professionals. Through collaboration across a national cohort, industry-specific leadership projects, and dynamic mentoring from top industry professionals, members of the cohort shape and influence the orchestra world as it evolves to meet changing needs and audiences.

In summer 2024, Andrew transitioned to the board of DC Strings Workshop and now leads the Washington Conservatory.