Biography
Lee Milhous is a summa cum laude graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, having received a Bachelor of Music degree in Church Music. He also holds a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music. His teachers included Michael Stairs, Robert Carwithen and Alan Harler.
Lee began his tenure as Organist and Choirmaster at Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church in Burlington, NJ in January 2009. At Saint Mary’s he manages the Saint Mary’s Music Series, which features several varied concerts and Evensongs annually. He has conducted liturgical and concert performances of Handel’s Messiah and Coronation Anthems, Bach’s Saint John Passion, Magnificat and Easter Oratorio; Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Saint Nicolai Mass; Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes, and Requiem’s by Fauré, Mozart, and Duruflé; among many other works. Additionally, he has served Choir Director and Accompanist at Temple Beth Hillel/Beth El in Wynnewood, on the Philadelphia Main Line since 1988. Lee also serves as Organist for The Evergreens Chapel (Moorestown, NJ), Associate Organist at Saint Margaret’s Parish (Narberth, PA), Music Director and Conductor for the Bucks County Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and Accompanist for all Lenape Middle School (Doylestown, PA) choirs and Sharim v’Sharot, a Jewish community chorus based at Rider University. Lee supplies for numerous parishes and synagogues through out the region.
His musical theater credits include productions of My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, The Pajama Game, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Rags, Hello Dolly, Bye-Bye Birdie, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, The Pirates of Penzance, Patience, Princess Ida, Oliver!, Funny Girl, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Cats, Fiddler on the Roof, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Grand Night for Singing, The Mikado, Beauty and the Beast, Children of Eden and Milk and Honey as both Music Director and Conductor.
Lee is also active as a concert organist. He proudly plays in recital through Cunningham Piano and Organ promoting the new Rogers Infinity series organs, and in 1992 he performed a solo at Carnegie Hall as part of an Opera Orchestra of New York production of Richard Wagner’s Rienzi. Lee enjoys playing French horn with the Delaware Valley College Community Band and the Doylestown Summer Community Band, as well as piano for the Doylestown Symphonic Winds. He resides in Doylestown, PA with his two sons Elliot and Christopher, their Maine Coon cat Phin, and a rescue turtle Bill.
Contact: leemilhous@stmarysburlington.org