Hongkong-born Angus Lee (b.1992) is a versatile composer-performer, and is a graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2014) and the Royal Academy of Music (2016) in London, supported by the Aedas Scholarship and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music & Dance Fund.

Lee initially received composition instruction from Hau-yee Ng and Maurice Poon, and continued to study composition largely an auto-didactic basis until 2016. Since then, Lee has studied in a number of international composition academies, studying under the tutelage of leading composers Franck Bedrossian, Frédéric Durieux, Philippe Manoury, Isabel Mundry, Yann Robin & Johannes Maria Staud. Departing from his instrumentalist training, Lee’s early works form a series of reflection on the question of virtuosity and physicality. Since 2019, however, Lee’s interests 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 leading international new music groups including Ensemble Intercontemporain (Fr), Ensemble Klangforum Wien (At), Ensemble Modern (De), Ensemble Multilatérale (Fr), HearNowHear (US), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble & Subaerial Collective (US), showcased at festivals such as Festival Musica Strasbourg (Fr), ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week (It), IRCAM ManiFeste (Fr), outHEAR New Music Week (Gr), Ticino Musica Festival (Ch) & Vienna International SaxFest 2014 (At). Lee’s first opera, Chasing Waterfalls (co-created with the Berlin-based klingklangklong), 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 been invited to co-adjudicate the composition competitions of the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival 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.