Celebrated American pianist, Dr. Julie Bees, is a Professor of Piano and Director of the Konrad Wolff-Ilse Bing Chamber Music Endowment Award at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. She is also a founding member of the Orfeo Trio, a traveling piano trio that has most recently given recitals and master classes across Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

Over her career, Dr. Bees has given countless performances as a soloist and collaborative pianist. She performed concertos with the SAR Philharmonic in Hong Kong, Denver, Dallas and Augusta symphony orchestras; solo recitals at Merkin Hall in New York City, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and on the Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago. Outside of the United States, she has performed and taught master classes in numerous cities, including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Vienna, Brussels, The Hague, Leipzig, Milan, Helsinki, Warsaw and St. Petersburg. She has also performed and taught master classes in China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong.

As a collaborative pianist, Dr. Bees has performed with the Vermeer Quartet, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, bass-baritone Alan Held, the Viotti trio, American Chamber Players and other ensembles and soloists.

A native of Miami, Florida, Dr. Bees earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory, the Diploma from the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria, and the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from University of Colorado in Boulder. Her mentors include Leon Fleisher, Maria Curcio, Dieter Weber, Alfred Mouledous, Konrad Wolff, and Peggy Neighbors Erwin.