Myles Lee

Myles is a board member of the Aronson Cello Festival (ACF).  He also serves as president of the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra.  Myles has a passion for still photography and has had exhibitions in Los Angeles and Carmel, California.]

Myles recently retired as a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon who practiced in Los Angeles, California for forty years. While pursuing a premedical course at Harvard University, Myles obtained a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in art history, wrote an honors thesis on Chinese landscape painting of the Sung Dynasty, and studied the Korean language. Following Tufts Medical School, he completed an internship and residency in general surgery at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, then served for two years as a Major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps at the 121st Evacuation Hospital in Seoul, Korea. Myles began his cardiac surgical career at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.

In May, 2018, Myles and Victoria Bond released the album, Soul of a Nation: Portraits of Presidential Character, featuring soloists from the Chicago and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras. This prolific duo is now working on the score and libretto of an original musical composition about Winston Churchill which is slated to premiere during the June 2020 Aronson Cello Festival (ACF) in Cleveland, Ohio. Through their research, Victoria and Myles discovered that Mr. Churchill was in fact a cellist.

Myles is a professional abstract expressionist photographer. His most recent exhibit, Nature's Art Unveiled, premiered at the Castelli Art Space in Los Angeles in October 2018. For five years, Myles has served as President of the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra. Myles has traveled extensively in South America, Europe, Africa, the South Pacific, and Asia. Some of his more unusual destinations included the Mount Everest base camp in Nepal, Siberia, Vietnam, Laos, the Amazon jungle, and a pilgrimage to the Soviet Union to visit Yasnaya Polyana, the estate of Count Leo Tolstoy.