Stephen Lee
Stephen Lee is a Hong Kong native who grew up in Seattle, Washington, USA. He began playing the flute at age 14 and was being honored with numerous awards from his high school years. He was privileged to have live-performances broadcasted at the KING FM classical radio station in Seattle and later received scholarships from the University of Washington to study with world-renowned wooden flute expert, Felix Skowronek and graduated with a Bachelor degree in Flute Performance in 2000. Stephen was awarded the Trinity Guildhall LTCL Flute Recital Diploma in 2010.
Relocated back to Hong Kong in 2007, Stephen has been busy in teaching and performing. He is a faculty of the Hong Kong Flute Centre and Pure Orchestral Centre. Stephen is also the conductor of St. Louis Secondary School Orchestra. He is a freelance flutist with Gustav Mahler Orchestra and Hong Kong Symphonia. With his multi-talents, Stephen is much sought-after in the pop music field too. Recent collaborations include ‘The Fairy Tales of Serrini’, ‘TWGHs E Major Ensemble “The Giving Tree” Concert’ and ‘Anita Mui 10th Anniversary Concert’; as well as Hong Kong TV drama’s original soundtrack recordings include ‘Every Step You Take’, ‘The No No Girl’, ‘Heart and Greed 3’, ‘OMG, Your Honour’ and ‘The Man Who Kills Troubles’.
Stephen founded three chamber music groups, namely “Hong Kong Chamber Flutes”, “Project M0Ch3” and “Trio IS2” to promote flute choir, contemporary music, and classical flute-violin-piano trio music. Stephen is the founder, artistic director, and chief conductor of the flute choir and in the latter group Stephen teamed up with pianist Christine Cheng, with both of them wish to promote Contemporary Classical Music to Hong Kong audience. He also teamed up with violinist Stephen Lam and pianist Irene Chan to promote classical style trio music for flute, violin, and piano.
As a composer, Stephen composed both Cantopop and Classical music. He composed and arranged music for solo flute with piano, flute ensembles, and flute choir. His flute trio piece, “Tango for Three”, was one of the final listed works in the Flute View’s Contest for Composers 2015, where the piece was world-premiered by the Flute View Trio. In 2017, Stephen was the assistant music director and music arranger of the Hong Kong original musical drama, “Mencius Sings Around The World”.
One of Stephen’s pedagogic mottos is to introduce the western flute culture to his students. He led his students to the National Flute Association Convention in the US, one of the largest in the World, in Las Vegas (2012), Washington DC (2015), Minneapolis (2017) and Salt Lake City (2019). Stephen is already at the planning of NFA Convention tour in Chicago (2022).