Hongkong-born Angus Lee (b. 1992) is one of the most versatile musicians of his generation. Named RTHK’s Young Music Maker in 2012, Lee has appeared at major music festivals including 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 is also a founding member of NOVA Ensemble, a collective of distinguished local young musicians. From 2018 - 19, he also founded and directed the ensemble’s PRISM Chamber Music Festival. 

Supported by the Aedas Scholarship and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music & Dance Fund, Lee completed his studies studied with highest honours at 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). He has also performed for prominent flautists in masterclass settings with William Bennett, Dieter Flury, Susan Milan and Emmanuel Pahud.

Orchestral training played an essential role in Lee’s musical upbringing. As a student, Lee has performed under conductors Marin Alsop, Lorin Maazel, Sir Trevor Pinnock, and Christian Thielemann; he was also a musician of the Asian Youth Orchestra for two summers (2011, 12). Now practising as a new music performer, Lee trained at the London Sinfonietta Academy (2016) and the prestigious Lucerne Festival Academy (2013, 15, 16) with musicians of the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Most significantly, Lee was nominated as soloist at Lucerne Festival Academy founder Pierre Boulez’s 90th Birthday Celebration Concert series in 2015 and the composer’s memorial concert in Easter 2016.

A member of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble since 2016, Lee has presenting the regional and world premieres of works by Chan Hing-yan, Unsuk Chinn, Brett Dean, Du Yun, and Toshio Hosokawa. He has also led the Ensemble as conductor and composer in premièring his own works, including APOCRYPHA (2018), Lapsus memoriae X — improvvisazioni su tre frammenti narrati (2022), and the opera Chasing Waterfalls (2022).

Lee is regularly invited to perform in solo and chamber recitals, including Tai Kwun’s «Laundry Steps» lunchtime concerts, the online recital series «Tom Lee Live», CityU Arts Festival (2021), as well as the Leisure & Cultural Services Department’s «Our Music Talents» and «City Hall Virtuosi» series. Additionally, Lee was the inaugural artist of HKU MUSE’s «Around Twilight» lecture demonstration series, performing and discussing Luciano Berio’s Sequenza I with Prof. Chan Hing-yan. He has given masterclasses at the HKU’s advanced music performance course and the HKUST’s Cosmopolis Festival, as well as adjudicating at the 74th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival’s flute competitions.

An LRAM certification holder, Lee currently serves as HKU Department of Music’s assistant lecturer, directing the Performance Study course. He is also part-time woodwind chamber music faculty at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Concurrently, he is woodwind faculty of the Lucerne Festival Academy from 2022 - 23.