Angus Lee (b. 1992) is one of the most versatile musicians of his generation. Named Young Music Maker by the RTHK (2012), Lee’s dynamic and engaging performances have earned him critical acclaim local and abroad at major music festivals such as the Ciclo de Música Contemporánea de Oviedo (ES), Hong Kong Arts Festival, Shanghai New Music Week (CN), 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 his studies, completed with the highest honours, were fully sponsored by numerous scholarships. He regularly competed locally and internationally, winning, among others, the Instrumental solo category (16+) at the 2009 Llangollen international Musical Eisteddfod (Wales, UK), as well as 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, Olivier Nowak, Samuel Coles, and Kate Hill. While still a student, Lee has performed under some of the most iconic conductors, including Marin Alsop, Lorin Maazel, Sir Trevor Pinnock, Christian Thielemann, and Vladimir Jurowski. He was also twice member of the Asian Youth Orchestra (2011-12). In the area of new music, Lee was trained at the London Sinfonietta Academy (2016) and the Lucerne Festival Academy (2013, 15, 16), where he performed in premières of works by the likes of Dieter Ammann, György Kurtág, Tod Machover, Olga Neuwirth, and Wolfgang Rihm. Most significantly, Lee was nominated as 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 returning to Hongkong in 2016, Lee has joined the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble as a flautist, presenting with the ensemble regional premieres of works by Toshio Hosokawa, Brett Dean, Du Yun, Unsuk Chin and Chan Hing-yan. 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, 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 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 LCSD’s «Our Music Talents» (2018) and «City Hall Virtuosi» (2023) series. Lee was also the inaugural artist of 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 with Prof. Chan Hing-yan. He has given masterclasses at HKU, EdUHK, HKUST, 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 HKU’s Department of Music since 2022, coordinating all performance-related courses as well as teaching music theory, chamber music, conducting, and an undergraduate level performance-based research capstone course. He teaches woodwind chamber music at the HKAPA on a part-time basis, and has served as flute faculty at the Lucerne Festival Academy (2022-23) and the inaugural edition of the South China Contemporary Creative Music Institute (2025). Lee has served the Hong Kong Arts Development Council as a grant and events assessor since 2020, and as a co-opted member in the Music Art Form Sub-committee of the LCSD since 2024.