Hongkong-born Angus Lee (b.1992) is a versatile composer-performer, and is a graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Royal Academy of Music, supported by the Aedas Scholarship and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music & Dance Fund.

Up until 2016, Lee has studied composition largely on an auto-didactic basis. Since then, Lee has studied with leading composers Franck Bedrossian, Philippe Manoury, Isabel Mundry & Yann Robin in masterclass settings. Departing from his instrumentalist training, Lee’s early works form a series of reflection on the question of virtuosity. Since 2019, Lee’s interests have turned towards exploring the function of repetition in conjunction with temporality, examining the nexus of elements informing our temporal experience of music.

Lee’s works have been performed by, among others, Ensemble Intercontemporain (Fr), Ensemble Klangforum Wien (At), Ensemble Modern (De), Ensemble Multilatérale (Fr) & Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, showcased at the ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week (It), IRCAM ManiFeste (Fr), outHEAR New Music Week (Gr), Ticino Musica Festival (Ch). Lee’s first opera, Chasing Waterfalls, received its world première at Semperoper Dresden in 2022, with its subsequent Asian première at Hong Kong's New Vision Arts Festival. Lee led the performances on both occasions as conductor.

Lee has co-adjudicated HKSMF’S composition competitions alongside distinguished composers Chan Hing-yan and Joshua Chan. In 2022, as part of the cross-disciplinary performative project A Date with Dogs, Lee also instructed, supervised, and conducted the works by 9 young local composers at the New Vision Arts Festival Hong Kong.

Lee is currently a doctoral student (composition) at the University of Hong Kong’s Music Department, supervised by Prof. Chan Hing-yan and Prof. Giorgio Biancorosso.