Colleen Lee

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Colleen Lee Ka-ling (born October 11, 1980) is a Hong Kong pianist who won the 6th place prize in the 15th International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 2005.

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Lee began piano lessons when she was four, and started studying with Miss Eleanor Wong upon admission to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts only two years later. She graduated valedictorian in 2001 (Bachelor’s) and again in 2003 (Professional Diploma), and has since been working with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule in Hannover, Germany.

She has given recitals extensively on nearly every continent, in venues from Carnegie Hall in New York to Chopin’s Manor in Poland, and has collaborated with many major orchestras, performing works from Bach to world premieres of Tjeknavorian and others. She was a guest artist at prestigious festivals in Austria (Carinthia), France (Prades “Casals”), Germany (Meissen, Goslar), Italy (Assisi), Holland (Holland Music Sessions) and Poland (Antonin, Chopin Duszniki Zdroj), and has been heard on radio in Hong Kong, Poland, Germany, Italy, Scotland and the United States.

She is internationally acclaimed as one of the leading pianists of her generation, and has been engaged to perform in the New Masters on Tour Series in Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, and Den Haag; as well as in New York, San Francisco and Tel-Aviv (with the Israel Philharmonic) among other prestigious venues, for the upcoming season.