Karen Lee-Morlang
An award-winning performer, educator and producer, Karen Lee Morlang has been lauded as “funny, brainy and creative.” After specializing in art song and chamber music for her post-graduate degree from the University of British Columbia, she then taught as a Sessional Lecturer at UBC while continuing her own education and performing in different parts of North America, Europe and Asia. Karen has been featured at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, MusicFest Vancouver, the World Peace Forum, Women’s Worlds Conference, the Vancouver Folk Festival and has been broadcast on CBC Radio.
In addition to working with the Vivaldi Chamber Choir, Karen enjoys collaborating with local choirs such as the Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir, BC Girls Choir, Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, Enchor, Vancouver Thunderbirds and Summerchor. With her passion for reaching new audiences for classical music, Karen has also directed recital and lecture series for the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Vancouver Public Library, the UBC Main Library, and completed a three-year project with the UBC Learning Exchange in the Downtown Eastside producing and teaching the Music Appreciation 101 course. As part of her work in the DTES, Karen co-coordinated the “Night Before the Opera” events at the Carnegie Center with the Vancouver Opera.
Previously Karen also created and hosted a mini-series called “Nuts & Notes” on CBC Radio One as well as guest hosting on Westcoast Performance for CBC Radio Two. In exploring her own voice while playing piano with other singers, Karen was a founding member of the vocal groups The Lady Larks, The K Sisters and The No Sh!t Shirleys. September 2022, Karen assumed the role of Music Director at St. Francis-in-the-Wood Church in West Vancouver, where she leads the enthusiastic Church Choir and the Coast Mountain Men’s Chorus.
Karen is also committed to her role as the Artistic Director of Health Arts Society of BC, which curates and delivers several hundred professional performances annually for elders living in long-term health care and retirement communities. When not at the piano or computer, Karen takes great pleasure in pursuing other passions such as riding her motorcycle, boating, fishing, hiking, swimming, reading, sewing, fussing over her potted plants and now learning to coordinate her lower limbs in the form of tap dancing.