Janice Lee, violinist and arranger, has performed as soloist with the University of Illinois, Raleigh and East Carolina University Symphony Orchestras and regularly tours with Tango with Winnie in the US and Asia. Along with guitarist Jose Guzman, she performs as J2 strings which celebrates their combined musical background of jazz and classical music. Janice formed the Chicago Avenue Ensemble to present chamber music programming for strings that finds the connections between genres such as contemporary composers, classical music, and popular music.

Summer engagements have included performing in Britten-Pears Orchestra, Caroga Lake Chamber Music Festival, Southern Illinois Music Festival, and National Repertory Orchestra. Recording credits include Britten-Pears Orchestra of Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra under Marin Alsop released by Naxos, Chicago Kids from Giovanny Revelle's eponymous album, and Leslie Damaso's Sirena. 

She is a graduate of East Carolina University (BM) and the Cleveland Institute of Music (MM), and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (DMA). Currently she is a Teaching Artist at Chicago Center of Music Education where she shares her musical experiences with students and encourages them to embrace all aspects of creative musicianship.