Angus Lee (b. 1992) is one of Hongkong’s most versatile musicians, having appeared at major international festivals including Hong Kong Arts Festival, Shanghai New Music Week (CN), Tongyeong International Music Festival (KR), Lucerne Festival (CH). Lee is also a founding member of NOVA Ensemble, a collective of distinguished local young musicians.

Lee graduated with highest honours from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2010 – 14) and the Royal Academy of Music in London (2014 – 16), studying with Tim Wilson, Olivier Nowak (HKAPA), Samuel Coles, Kate Hill and Patricia Morris (RAM). Lee has also performed under prominent conductors Marin Alsop, Lorin Maazel, Sir Trevor Pinnock, and Christian Thielemann. At the renowned Lucerne Festival Academy, Lee has also been nominated as soloist at Lucerne Festival Academy founder Pierre Boulez’s 90th Birthday Celebration Concert series (2015) and the composer’s memorial concert (2016).

A member of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble since 2016, Lee has presenting the regional and world premieres of works by leading composers today. He has also led the Ensemble as conductor and composer in premièring his own works, including Lapsus memoriae X — improvvisazioni su tre frammenti narrati (2022) and the opera Chasing Waterfalls (2022), among others.

Lee is regularly invited to perform in recitals, including Tai Kwun’s «Laundry Steps» lunchtime concerts, as well as the LCSD’s «Our Music Talents» and «City Hall Virtuosi» series. Additionally, Lee was the inaugural artist at HKU MUSE’s «Around Twilight» lecture demonstration series, performing and discussing Berio’s Sequenza I with Prof. Chan Hing-yan. He has also given masterclasses at the HKU and the HKUST, as well as adjudicating at the 74th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival’s flute competitions.

An LRAM certification holder, Lee is currently HKU Music Department’s assistant lecturer, directing the Performance Study course. He also teaches woodwind chamber music at the HKAPA. Concurrently, he is woodwind faculty of the Lucerne Festival Academy (2022 - 23).