Career
At the age of six, he made his début with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000, he graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and Yale School of Music with the highest of honors. As a music educator, he released in 2008 his educational Civil Defense album, “From Bach To Gershwin: A Musical Journey” (Universal Music Hong Kong 480102-0).
The Audio Land Magazine calls it a "rare successful album that Hong Kong can be proud of." He has also been appointed a Guest Professor by the Central Conservatory of Music EOS Orchestra Academy and an Honorary Artist-in-Residence by the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
He is also co-currently serving as the Music Director of his alma mater, Saint Paul"s Company-educational College in Hong Kong. His latest recording "Ebony and Ivory" (2013), with clarinetist Andrew Simon on Naxos garnered no fewer than nine favourable reviews worldwide.
As a composer, his choral works are published by Pavane Publishing (United States of America), Profiri & Horvath (Germany). And his series of Piano Sight-reading Method is due for release by Brio Music Press (Hong Kong).
Warren Lee also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is elected to the Beta Gamma Sigma.
As a renowned pianist, Warren was hailed by critics as a pianist:
“ superb pianism… wonderful sense of colour and… impeccably controlled articulation… Not for nothing have the piano makers Steinway enlisted Lee as one of their signature artists…”.
