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Tong Soon Lee joined Emory in autumn 2001. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh (PhD 1998; MA 1995) and University of Durham, UK (MBA, 2002; BA Hons., 1993). He holds an Advanced Certificate in Asian Studies (Pittsburgh, 1998) and also the licentiate diplomas in piano performance from the Royal Schools of Music (LRSM, 1993) and Trinity College of Music, London (LTCL, 1990). Prior to joining Emory, Tong Soon was a Research Fellow at the Chinese Opera Institute in Singapore (1996-1997) and a Lecturer in Music at the University of Durham (1998-2001). A member of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Tong Soon has served on the SEM Council (2000-2003), as editor of the SEM Newsletter (2000-2006), and as the Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for the SEM 50th National Conference (2005). Tong Soon is a member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Society for Asian Music, and was a member of the program committee for the British Forum for Ethnomusicology conference in Sheffield (2000) and the 37th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music in China (2004). In 2006, Tong Soon was appointed to the Music Advisory Committee of the Georgia Assessments for the Certification of Educators in the Georgia Professional Standards Commission. Tong Soon's research focuses on Southeast and East Asian music, with particular interests in Singapore and the musical practices of diasporic Asian communities. He conducted field research on Chinese street opera in Singapore for his doctoral studies with the support of the International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (1997) and under the supervision of Bell Yung and René T. A. Lysloff. A research award from the British Academy (2000) enabled further study in this area and his book, Chinese Street Opera in Singapore, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press (2008). Tong Soon has also worked with the Islamic community in Singapore to examine the religious significance of the Islamic call to prayer. The research led to the publication of "Technology and the Production of Islamic Space: The Islamic Call to Prayer in Singapore" in Ethnomusicology (1999) (reprinted in Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Routledge, 2006); a revised and expanded version was also published in Music and Technoculture, Wesleyan University Press, 2003). In 2006, Tong Soon was awarded a research grant from the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange for his current project on Chinese music and migration in Great Britain. The first publication of this research, "Grace Liu and Cantonese Opera in England: Becoming Chinese Overseas," is forthcoming in Lives in Chinese Music (University of Illinois Press). At Emory, Tong Soon is the Director of Undergraduate Research and Director of World Music Performance in the music department. He teaches disciplinary studies in musicology and ethnomusicology, survey courses in world musical cultures, topical courses in South, Southeast and East Asian music, performance classes on Korean percussion, West Javanese gamelan, and Central Javanese gamelan, and manages the North Indian and South Indian classical music ensembles.
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