Colleen Lee
Hong Kong pianist Colleen Lee achieved international recognition after winning 6th Prize at the 15th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano
Competition. She has performed extensively around the world in solo recitals, and with orchestras including the Warsaw, the China, the Israel and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras. She made her debut with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle in 2019. She was the Artist Associate of Hong Kong Sinfonietta in the 2010/11 Season. Lee has appeared in major festivals including the Duszniki Festival in Poland, Musicus Fest in Espoo, Finland and Shanghai New Music Week.
Recent performance including world premiere of Charles Kwong’s (Hong Kong composer) Piano Concerto “ Hereafters” and 66th season of summer recital in Warsaw this August.
An enthusiastic chamber musician, Lee frequently appears in chamber music concerts and has also collaborated with world-famous instrumentalists including violinists Dmitry Sitkovesky, Ning Feng and Kang Dong-suk, cellists Trey Lee, Daniel Müller-Schott, Alban Gerhardt and Lluis Claret, trumpet virtuoso Sergei Nakarialov and the Shanghai Quartet. She is a member of the RTHK Chamber Soloists.
Lee studied under Professor Eleanor Wong at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) and with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover. Her discography includes an all Chopin album recorded on the Pleyel Piano released by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, and a complete Scarlatti Sonatas album by Naxos. She was also featured on the Hong Kong Sinfonietta DECCA album This is Classical Music 3.
She is currently the Honorary Artist-in-Residence of the Education University of Hong Kong and a member of the piano faculty at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and at the Hong Kong Baptist University.