Hope Anne Keng-Wai Lee

Hope Anne Keng-Wei Lee (b. 14 Jan 1953) is a Canadian musician, music educator and composer of Chinese birth.

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Life

Hope Lee was born in Taipei, Taiwan, of parents from mainland China, and began studying piano at the age of five. In 1967 she moved to Canada, intending to study medicine, but instead she decided on music and studied piano with Patrick Li at the Royal Conservatory of Music.[1] She continued her studies at McGill University with Rose Goldblatt and Louis-Philippe Pelletier for piano, with Mariano Etkin, Alcides Lanza, and Bengt Hambraeus for electronic music, and with Hambraeus, John Rea, and Brian Cherney for composition. Later she studied with Klaus Huber at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, West Germany, and computer music and Chinese traditional music and poetry in Berkeley, California.

Lee became a Canadian citizen in 1974, and married composer David Eagle in 1980. She participates in festivals, conferences and courses internationally, including Darmstadt in 1989. She has researched and ancient Chinese poetry and the history and theory of Chinese music and learned to play qin. She has served as guest composer and composer-in-residence at different venues and as guest lecturer at universities including Queen's University, the University of Calgary and the Wuhan Conservatory of Music in China.[2][3]

Honors and awards

Works

Selected work include:

Lee has published professional articles including:

Discography

References

  1. ^ Briscoe, James R. (1997). Contemporary anthology of music by women. 
  2. ^ Bazzana, Kevin. "Hope Lee". http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002021. Retrieved 22 December 2010. 
  3. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA272&dq=Hope+Anne+Keng-Wai+Lee+(born+1953)&hl=en&ei=nYISTdyODoL98Ab1n7DQDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 22 December 2010. 

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