NEWS
2025
04.07.2025
PUAWYPS: Alumni Visit at Graduation Ceremony 2025
Angus Lee was invited to visit Pun U Association Wah Yan Primary School as an alumni representative at the school’s 2025 Graduation Ceremony…
23.06.2025
Hotel Stage: OPUS Concert series
Angus Lee is part of the artist line-up for Hotel Stage’s brand new concert series, OPUS. For his recital on 20th December 2025 — tickets now available via Art-Mate — he will be joined by pianist Mark Hui in a programme featuring…
21.01.2025
International Rostrum of Composers: HK representative
The recording of Angus Lee’s orchestral work, … aux cendres (2024), commissioned and premiered by the Hong Kong Philharmonic, will be presented at the 71st International Rostrum of Composers.
2024
06.12.2024
CD release: Angus Lee’s Rage Over Lost Time (2020) with HereNowHear
Angus Lee’s 2020 two-piano works, Rage Over Lost Time, was released on the album Sedgeflowers | MANTRA, published on the label False Azure Records by the American piano duo HereNowHear (Ryan McCullough & Andrew Zhou)…
12.07.2024
CD release: Camilo Mendez’s Distant Fragments
Angus Lee’s recording of Colombian composer Camilo Mendez’s solo flute work, Cancion de la Distancia I, is published by the specialist new music label, KAIROS…
21.06.2024
Hong Kong Philharmonic: Commission award
Angus Lee is recipient of the commission award as part of HK Phil’s The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Hong Kong Composers Scheme. The new work will be premiered by the orchestra under the baton of Elim Chan…
31.01.2024
ECLAT Festival Stuttgart: Performance with Ensemble Modern
Angus Lee will return to lead Ensemble Modern at the ECLAT Festival for New Music in Stuttgart Germany in a concert honouring the prize laureates of the 2023 edition of Composition Award Stuttgart. He will lead the performances of si callalo pudié sentirsas (2020) by Irene Galindo Quero (1985-) and Paramount (2021/22) by Philipp Krebs (1994), the latter a work he premiered with Ensemble Modern in 2022.
2023
20.12.2023
Hong Kong Philharmonic: Selection for Robert Ho Composers’ Scheme 2023/24
Alongside five other Hongkong composers, Angus Lee has been selected to take part in Hong Kong Philharmonic’s Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Composers’ Scheme 2023/2024…
19.02.2023
CRESC… Biennale for Current Music Frankfurt: Performance with Ensemble Modern
Angus Lee will lead the Ensemble Modern at the ICCS closing concert at Frankfurt’s CRESC… Biennale for Current Music. He will deliver the world premiere performances of Gewalt der Musik (2022) by Piotr Peszat and Paramount (2021/22) by Philipp Krebs.
15.02.2023
IYCA: Invitation as Resident Conductor
At the invitation of IYCA founder and director, composer Oscar Bianchi, Angus Lee will be returning to the Academy as resident conductor for summer 2023 as part of the faculty team consisting of Bianchi, Clara Iannotta and Lisa Streich. He will rehearse and lead the premiere performances of works by participant composers with Ensemble Musikfabrik and the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart.
2022
22.11.2022
51st Hong Kong Arts Festival: The Book of Water
Angus Lee will be joining the HKAF production of Dutch composer Michel van der Aa’s The Book of Water as a conductor. The performances on 24th February 2023 will be the Asian premiere of the work.
30.07.2022
The University of Hong Kong: Faculty member appointment at the Department of Music
Angus Lee has been appointed assistant lecturer at HKU’s Department of Music. As part of his appointment, he is in charge of coordinating all performace-related courses of the Department…
2021
25.12.2021
Phase7 & Semperoper Dresden: Commission for a new opera
Angus Lee has been commissioned to co-create (alongside the Berlin-based sound art collective, Klingklangklong) a new opera for Semperoper Dresden’s Season 2022 - 23 opening. Lee will also lead the premiere performances as conductor of the production…
29.10.2021
CD release: Angela Hui’s Let Me Tell You Something
Percussionist Angela Hui releases her debut album Let me tell you something, “intimate project, a whisper in listeners’ ears and an invitation into a strange yet beautiful world”, containing the debut recordings of Angus Lee’s Vestigium I & II for solo percussion.
01.07.2021
Lucerne Festival: Nomination as Contemporary Leader
As part of Lucerne Festival’s restructuring, Angus Lee has been nominated alongside 14 other LFA alumni as ‘Lucerne Festival Contemporary Leaders’, co-curating the upcoming…
10.06.2021
The Orchestra Academy: Admission to Young Pro Platform
Angus has been selected as one of 16 young musicians to participate in the Young Pro Platform, as part of The Orchestra Academy jointly organised by the Hong Kong Philharmonic…
01.06.2021
Ensemble Modern: Selection as Conductor at Composition Seminar
Alongside fellow conductor Sara Caneva, Angus Lee will be leading the Ensemble Modern in premiering brand new works by selected composers of the Ensemble’s 10th International Composition Seminar…