About

Kaii was born in Taipei, Taiwan where she began her musical training on the piano, French horn and cello. Her Catholic school choir had provided the experience for singing in many different languages. Since elementary school, she had traveled throughout Asia and the United States to perform. She earned her B.A. degree in Piano Performance from UCLA, where she served as the A Capella choir president under Roger Wagner. She earned her M.A. degree from Cal State Northridge in Piano Performance and studied under world renowned pianist, Jacob Gimpel. While at CSUN, Kaii also completed her K-12 Single Subject and Community College Teaching Credentials. Before joining the Irvine Unified School District, she taught piano courses at College of the Canyon, K-12 vocal and general music for the Las Virgenes School District, and high school vocal and musical theatre classes for the Oak Park Unified School District. She also taught ear training and music theory classes at the Grove School of Music while becoming a MIDI musician to work with musicians such as David Foster.

Kaii owned a music studio in Woodland Hills for 12 years and has been writing method books for piano and voice since 1991. Her latest vocal books, "Singing Basics", were composed for and used at elementary schools in Irvine. She has been the Irvine Elementary School Honor Chorus music arranger, accompanist, director, and Honors Concert Stage Manager, from 1999 to 2012, the Irvine Middle School Honor Chorus accompanist and director for 2006, and served as an accompanist for Irvine Valley College. After earning the title as the Irvine Unified Fine Arts Teacher of the Year in 2003, Kaii was awarded by the Orange County Music and Arts Administrators (OCMAA) to be the Orange County Elementary School Vocal Music Teacher of the Year in 2004. She was selected to be one of the 24 teacher-attendees nationwide in the "Dvorak Institute", hosted by the Pittsburgh University and funded by the Department of National Endowment for the Humanities in July, 2010. Check her work from Pittsburgh here.

Ms. Lee put together "Dvorak Assemblies" for Alderwood Elementary School in March 2012, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, by writing a script about Dvorak, teaching Dvorak's songs to her classes and reaaranging Dvorak music for Mrs. Kroesen's string students to perform in the same assemblies. This project also involved American Music Scholar, Joseph Horowitz, Bass-Bariton, Terry Cook, and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra.

Currently, Kaii enjoys teaching at Alderwood, Brywood, Eastshore, Oak Creek and Turtle Rock Elementary Schools, being a private piano teacher, and singing with the Pacific Chorale. She participated in the Pacific Chorale's Paris Tour 2012 performances in Paris, France. On her non-school days, she loves to play with her grand daughters.

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