Angus Lee (b. 1992) is one of Hongkong’s most versatile composer-performers. He was winner of the Golden Sail Music Award (2025), conferred by the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong for his orchestral work, … aux cendres (2024).

Regarded today as one of the leading voices of his generation, Lee was initially instructed by Hau-yee Ng and Maurice Poon in composition. While he opted to pursue studies as a flautist in his Bachelor’s and Master’s studies, pursue composition on an autodidactic basis until 2016, when he began visiting international composition academies. His principal mentors include Oscar Bianchi, Dimitri Papageorgiou, and Philippe Manoury; he has also studied in masterclass settings with Mark Andre, Franck Bedrossian, Michael Finnissy, Toshio Hosokawa, Christian Mason, Isabel Mundry, Yann Robin, Johannes Schöllhorn, Orestis Toufektsis, and Nicolas Tzortzis. Lee’s compositions are characterised by an insistent pursuit of detailed, complex sonic texturality and a concomitant affinity for technical virtuosity. Since 2019, his works have also broadened to research issues of perception, temporality and historical materialities.

Lee’s compositions have been performed by, among others, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, HearNowHear, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, and Klangforum Wien at the likes of ACL Asian Music Festival, CYCLE Music and Arts Festival, ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week, IRCAM ManiFeste, outHEAR New Music Week, and Ticino Musica Festival. His music has also twice represented Hongkong at the International Rostrum of Composers (2021 & 2025). Recent highlights include the première his first opera, Chasing Waterfalls (2021-22), at Semperoper Dresden; his orchestral works, Des flammes… (2023-24) and … aux cendres (2024), commissioned and premièred by the Hong Kong Philharmonic; hic / nunc (2024-25) for amplified ensemble and fixed-media, commissioned by Music Biennale Zagreb and premièred by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and Vertixe Sonora; … but only the radiant, shimmering— (2025-26) for percussion, light installation and fixed-media, commissioned by the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild; and Shining through (2026), commissioned by the outHEAR New Music Week 2026, premièred by vocalist Camile Primeau and Klangforum Wien under the composer’s direction. His Vestigium I & II (2019), commissioned by percussionist angela hui wai nok, was released on the album Let Me Tell You Something(2021) by nonclassical; his Rage Over Lost Time (2020), commissioned by the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards for the American piano duo HereNowHear (Andrew Zhou and Ryan McCullough), can be heard on the album sedgeflowers | MANTRA (2024) by False Azure Records.

Lee has been invited as adjudicator in local composition competitions, including at the 72nd, 73rd and 74th editions of the Hong Kong Schools’ Music Festival, as well as New Generation 2020 and 2026. In 2022, Lee also instructed, supervised and conducted the performance of short works by nine 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. At the University of Hong Kong, Lee co-launched the HKU Doming Lam Composition Prize with Prof. Chan Hing-yan in 2024, aimed at incubating and nurturing the University’s emerging young composers.

Lee is a doctoral candidate in composition at the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Music.