Born in then British–Hongkong, Angus Lee (b. 1992) is one of the most versatile musicians of his generation. Named Young Music Maker by the RTHK in 2012, Lee’s dynamic and engaging performances have earned him critical acclaim local and abroad at major music festivals, including Beijing Music Festival (CN), Ciclo de Música Contemporánea de Oviedo (ES), Hong Kong Arts Festival, Shanghai New Music Week (CN), Taiwan Hong Kong Week, Tongyeong International Music Festival (KR), Lucerne Festival (CH) and New Vision Arts Festival (HK).

Lee’s formative years were spent at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2010–14) and the Royal Academy of Music in London (2014–16), where he completed his studies with the highest honours. His studies were fully sponsored by the Aedas Scholarship (2010-14) and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music & Dance Fund (2014-16) in addition to the Bernard van Zuiden Music Fund, the Harold Wrigley Alcock Scholarship, Hong Kong Vienna Opera Ball Scholarship, and the Parsons Music Foundation Scholarship. He also made frequent appearances in competitions locally and internationally, including being named winner of the Instrumental solo category (16+) at the 2009 Llangollen international Musical Eisteddfod (Wales, UK); he also won the second prize and the special Zushi Prize at the 1st Japan-Hong Kong International Music Competition in 2012. His principle teachers included Tim Wilson and Olivier Nowak (Hong Kong Philharmonic), Samuel Coles (Philharmonia Orchestra), Kate Hill (English Chamber Orchestra), and Patricia Morris (BBC Symphony Orchestra). While still a student, Lee has worked under some of the most iconic conductors as well, including Marin Alsop, Paavo Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Lorin Maazel, Sir Trevor Pinnock, and Christian Thielemann. To further his orchestral training, he has also twice enrolled in the Asian Youth Orchestra (2011, 12), performing major symphonic works by Berlioz, Mahler and Rachmaninov under James Judd and Richard Pontzious.

Today, Lee is regarded as a leading contemporary music specialist in Hongkong. He was trained at the London Sinfonietta Academy (2016) and the prestigious Lucerne Festival Academy (2013, 15, 16) under musicians of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, partaking in regional and world premiere of works by leading composers, including Dieter Ammann (violin concerto unbalanced instability, 2013), György Kurtág (Petite musique solennelle en hommage à Pierre Boulez 90, 2015), Tod Machover (A Symphony for Lucerne, 2015), Olga Neuwirth (percussion concerto Trurliade – Zone Zero, 2016), and Wolfgang Rihm (Gruß-Moment, 2015) under the likes of conductors Susanna Mälkki and David Robertson. Most significantly, Lee was nominated as soloist at Lucerne Festival Academy founder Pierre Boulez’s 90th Birthday Celebration Concert series (2015), performing Mémoriale (...explosante-fixe... Originel). He was invited to reprise the performance in Easter 2016 at the composer’s memorial concert, with the Lucerne Festival Alumni Orchestra under Matthias Pintscher.

Since 2016, Lee has been a musician of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, with which he presented the regional premieres of works by Toshio Hosokawa (opera Matsukaze, 2016), Brett Dean (Carlo, 2017), Du Yun (opera Angel’s Bone, 2018), Unsuk Chin (Double Concerto & Gougalon, 2018) and Chan Hing-yan (concerto Sonic Affairs, 2018; operas Ghost Love, 2018; Heart of Coral, rev. 2022; Kungfood, 2023) locally and on tour. Lee has also performed the regional premières of solo flute works by the likes of Sir George Benjamin, Michael Jarrell, Bruno Mantovani, Matthias Pintscher and Kaija Saariaho. In 2025, alongside HKNME pianist Linda Yim, Lee delivered the Hongkong première of Pierre Boulez’s seminal Sonatine (1949) for flute & piano. Most recently, Lee delivered the regional première of Philippe Manoury’s Soubresauts (2020) in the composer’s portrait concert at HKU’s MUSE concert series. Lee’s performance of composer Camilo Mendez’s flute music can be heard on the monograph album, Distant Fragments, released by the Austrian new music specialist label, KAIROS [0022038KAI].

In Hongkong, Lee is regularly invited to perform in solo and chamber recitals, including the likes of Tai Kwun’s «Laundry Steps» lunchtime concerts (2019, 2020), the online recital series «Tom Lee Live» (2020 & 2021), CityU Arts Festival (2021), as well as the Leisure and Cultural Services Department’s «Our Music Talents» (2018) and «City Hall Virtuosi» (2023) series. At the invitation of composer Prof. Chan Hing-yan, Lee also inaugurated HKU MUSE’s «Around Twilight» (2021) lecture demonstration series at the height of COVID-19 pandemic, performing and discussing Luciano Berio’s Sequenza I for solo flute. He has given masterclasses at the University of Hong Kong, the Education University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the LCSD Music Office, as well as adjudicating at the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival’s flute competitions.

A holder of the special LRAM diploma conferred by the Royal Academy of Music, Lee has served as assistant lecturer at the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Music since 2022, coordinating all performance-related courses in addition to teaching music theory, chamber music, conducting, as well as supervising an undergraduate level performance-based research capstone course. He also teaches woodwind chamber music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts on a part-time basis, as well as having served as flute faculty at the Lucerne Festival Academy (2022-23) and the inaugural edition of the South China Contemporary Creative Music Institute (2025). Beyond his work as a performer, composer and pedagogue, Lee has served the Hong Kong Arts Development Council as a grant and events assessor since 2020, as well as, since 2024, a co-opted member in the Music Art Form Sub-committee of the HKSAR Leisure and Cultural Services Department.