Angus Lee will deliver a guest lecture at HKU Arts Tech Lab’s summer academy. He will speak alongside German producer, Maurice Mersinger, on the “artificial intelligence opera,” Chasing Waterfalls (2021-22), which they co-created.

Angus Lee has been selected as both composer and conductor to participate in the year-long residency programme, percept.concept.percept, organised by Inštitut .abeceda (Slovenia). He will develop a new work to be premièred at the 6th Bled Contemporary Music Week (2027).

Angus Lee’s Rage Over Lost Time (2020), commissioned by the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards, was premièred at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic by the American piano duo, HereNowHear (Andrew Zhou & Ryan McCullough), who subsequently released the work as part of the album, sedgeflowers | MANTRA (2024), on False Azure Records. Read here the review by Tyran Grillo, who likens the uncanniness of work to films by the Quay Brothers.

Angus Lee has been conferred the 2025 CASH Golden Sail Award for his orchestral piece, … aux cendres (2024), commissioned and premiered by the Hong Kong Philharmonic under Elim Chan. The work was also featured at the 71st International Rostrum of Composers in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Watch here the world première of Angus Lee’s ... but only the radiant, shimmering— (2025-26), performed by Karen Yu (solo percussion) and Amy Chan (light installation). The work was commissioned by the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild.

Revisit Angus Lee’s debut appearance at the HKU MUSE concert series here in a special back-to-back performance of the two versions of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza I (1958; rev. 1992) from 2020. He recently returned to the HKU MUSE series, delivering the regional première of Philippe Manoury’s Soubresauts.

Watch here the performances of Ken Ueno’s Transcription is an Act of Empathy (2024) and Suguru Wagatsuma’s The Words from Time (2025), delivered by the Duo AR and the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, directed by Angus Lee.