Lee is also an accomplished composer. His compositions range across a broad spectrum, from choral works to string quartets to symphonies, as well as pieces for the organ and the piano. Many of these works have been commissioned. Recently, he submitted a new composition String Quartet in C Minor No. 3 to the Great Falls Symphony competition in Montana. The piece was praised for its unique and creative energy and as a finalist, was performed by the Cascade Quartet in February 2018. In 2019, two Organ works were published by Beckenhorst Publishers, Inc. (Columbus Ohio)

Throughout his career, Lee has worked with a number of jazz greats such as Carl Fontana, Danny Gottlieb and Richie Cole, as well as artists from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Temptations and Bo Diddley, among others. Lee has been invited to perform at many music festivals including the San Jose Jazz festival, Victoria B.C. International Music Festival and in 1987 performed at the Montreux Music Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. His first band In Flight produced a recording under the auspices of Claude Nobs, founder of the festival. Since then, Lee has recorded on over 20 independent CDs with various artists. In 2020 He became an Origin Records recording artist when he published “Winter Colors” with the Kohler-Peterson Collective.