Born in then British–Hongkong, Angus Lee (b.1992) is a versatile composer-performer, having completed his musical training at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2014) and the Royal Academy of Music (2016) in London with the highest honours, supported by full scholarships from the Aedas and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music & Dance Fund.

Lee initially received composition instruction from Hau-yee Ng and Maurice Poon as a student. Parallel to his instrument studies, he continued to study composition largely an auto-didactic basis until 2016. Since then, Lee has been invited to a number of international composition academies, studying under the tutelage of leading composers Franck Bedrossian, Oscar Bianchi, Frédéric Durieux, Dmitri Kourliandski, Philippe Manoury, Simone Movio, Isabel Mundry, Dimitri Papageorgiou, Yann Robin, Johannes Maria Staud & Nicolas Tzortzis. He has also taken composition masterclasses with Mark Andre, Michael Finnissy, Luca Francesconi, Bernhard Gander, Toshio Hosokawa, Johannes Schöllhorn & Simon Steen-Andersen.

Departing from his instrumentalist training, Lee’s early compositions form a series of reflection on the question of virtuosity and physicality, manifest in his works for the flute: Firecircle [Diptych in memory of Pierre Boulez] (2016), Et lux perpetua (2017), and Lapsus memoriae I [Epigrafe in memoria di una città immaginaria] (2018), all of which were conceived with the specific purpose of exhausting and expanding the notion of virtuosity. Since 2019, Lee’s interested turned towards exploring the function of repetition in conjunction with temporality, examining the nexus of elements informing our temporal experience of music. Lethescape (2020) for bass flute, violin & cello, Palimpsest II (2020) for string quartet, ... ché la diritta via era smarrita (2021) for ensemble & solo marimba, as well as subsequent fixed media works in the «Lapsus memoriae» series have been probing this area of research from different points of departure.

Lee’s works have been performed by leading international new music groups including Ensemble Intercontemporain (Fr), Ensemble Klangforum Wien (At), Ensemble Modern (De), Ensemble Multilatérale (Fr), Ensemble Suono Giallo (It), Exordium Collective (HK), HearNowHear (US), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Subaerial Collective (US) & Trio Accanto, showcased at festivals such as ACL Asian Music Festival (Jp), Festival Musica Strasbourg (Fr), ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week (It), IRCAM ManiFeste (Fr), outHEAR New Music Week (Gr), Seoul International Computer Music Festival (Kr), Ticino Musica Festival (Ch) & Vienna International SaxFest 2014 (At). Chasing Waterfalls (commissioned by the Berlin-based phase.7 performing arts group and co-created with the sound art collective klingklangklong), Lee’s first opera, received its world première at Semperoper Dresden, with its subsequent Asian première at Hong Kong's New Vision Arts Festival. Lee led the performances on both occasions as conductor.

An awardee of the Hong Kong Schools’ Music Festival’s composition competitions in his early student years, Lee was invited to return and co-adjudicate the 72nd, 73rd and 74th editions of the competition alongside distinguished local composers Prof. Chan Hing-yan (2020 - 21) and Dr. Joshua Chan (2022), critiquing, discussing, and witnessing the birth of works by a new emerging generation of young composers. In 2022, At the invitation of visual artist Kingsley Ng and curator Stephanie Cheung, Lee also instructed, supervised and conducted the creation and performance of short works by 9 young local composers as part of A Date with Dogs, a cross-disciplinary performative installation event spearheaded by MaD Asia and presented by the New Vision Arts Festival Hong Kong 2022.

Lee is currently pursuing doctoral studies in composition at the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Music, supervised by Prof. Chan Hing-yan and Prof. Giorgio Biancorosso.