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 such as the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.   She was the Artist Associate of Hong Kong Sinfonietta 2010 - 2011.  Colleen has appeared in major festivals including the 2018 Shanghai New Music Week. She made her début with London Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle in 2019. 2023-24 highlights include 64th season of summer recitals in Warsaw and a tour of 11 cities in China.

As an enthusiastic chamber musician, she frequently appears in chamber music festivals and collaborates with renowned soloists and chamber groups including the Shanghai Quartet.  She is also a member of the RTHK Chamber Soloists formed in 2018.

Colleen studied under Professor Eleanor Wong at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts as the first cohort of Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholar. She further her studies with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover under the Hong Kong Jockey Club Muisc and Dance Fund.  

Lee's discography includes an all Chopin album recorded on the Pleyel Piano released by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, and an all Scarlatti Sonatas album by Naxos.

She is currently the Honorary Artist-in-Residence of the Education University of Hong Kong and a member of the piano faculty at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Source: Academy of Music, Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong Sinfonietta
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
Hong Kong City Philharmonia