Angus Lee (b. 1992) is a versatile performer-composer. Named Young Music Maker by the RTHK (2012), Lee’s critically acclaimed performance has been heard at major music festivals across Asia, and continental Europe.

Recipient of the Aedas Scholarship (2010–14) and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship (2014-16), Lee graduated from the HKAPA and RAM London (2014–16) with the highest honours. His principle teachers included Olivier Nowak, Samuel Coles, and Kate Hill. He has worked with the likes of Emily Beynon, Dieter Flury, and Emmanuel Pahud in masterclasses, and played under conductors Lorin Maazel, Christian Thielemann, and Vladimir Jurowski while still a student. He was also member of the Asian Youth Orchestra (2011-12).

Regarded today as a leading specialist in new music, Lee received his training at Lucerne Festival Academy (2013, 15, 16) under musicians of Ensemble Intercontemporain. He took part in premières of works by Dieter Ammann, György Kurtág, Tod Machover, Olga Neuwirth, and Wolfgang Rihm at the Festival. Significantly, Lee was soloist at Pierre Boulez’s 90th Birthday Celebration Concert series (2015) and the subsequent memorial concert (2016), performing the composer’s Mémoriale (...explosante-fixe... Originel) under Matthias Pintscher. Since 2016, Lee has joined the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, working closely with composers Toshio Hosokawa, Brett Dean, Du Yun, Unsuk Chin and Chan Hing-yan. He has regionally premièred of solo flute works by Sir George Benjamin, Michael Jarrell and Matthias Pintscher. Recently, Lee delivered the Hongkong premières of Kaija Saariaho’s NoaNoa (1992) for flute & live electronics, Pierre Boulez’s seminal Sonatine (1949) for flute & piano, as well as Philippe Manoury’s Soubresauts (2020) for solo flute. Lee’s recording of flute works by composer Camilo Mendez can be heard on the monograph album, Distant Fragments, by KAIROS [0022038KAI].

Lee is regularly invited to perform in solo and chamber recitals in Hongkong, with previous appearances at Tai Kwun’s «Laundry Steps» series (2019, 2020), the «Tom Lee Live» series (2020 & 2021), CityU Arts Festival (2021), and LCSD’s «Our Music Talents» (2018) and «City Hall Virtuosi» (2023) series. Lee was also featured on HKU MUSE’s «Around Twilight» (2021) lecture demonstration series, where he performed and discussed Luciano Berio’s Sequenza I for solo flute. He has given masterclasses at HKU, EdUHK, HKUST, the LCSD Music Office, and act as adjudicator at the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival.

Lee, a holder of the LRAM diploma conferred by RAM, has served as assistant lecturer at HKU’s Department of Music since 2022. He teaches music theory, chamber music, conducting, and supervises an undergraduate level performance-based research capstone course. He teaches part-time at the HKAPA (woodwind chamber music), and has served as flute faculty at the Lucerne Festival Academy (2022-23) and the South China Contemporary Creative Music Institute (2025). Lee is also an HKADC grant and events assessor, and a co-opted member of LCSD’s Music Art Form Sub-committee.