Hope Anne Keng-Wei Lee
Hope Lee (born 14 January 1953) is a Canadian musician, music educator and composer of Chinese birth.
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 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]
Honours and awards
- First prize in PROCAN's Young Composers' Contest, 1979
- Two CAPAC William St Clair Low Awards, 1979, 1982
- Music Today Award, Japan, 1985
- First prize in the Scotia Festival of Music Boulez Year Composers' Competition, 1991
Works
Selected work include:
- Ballade of Endless Woe. 1978-9. Vocal quartet, percussion ensemble; version with piano, 1987
- Dindle. 1979. Piano
- Onomatopoeia. 1979-81. Comprising Chan Chan, chamber string orchestra; Jia Yuan children's choir, 15 instruments; Tiao Tiao, chamber orchestra
- Nabripamo. 1982. Piano, marimba
- Nohr. 1983. Brass sextet
- Melboac. 1983. Harpsichord
- In a Mirror of Light. 1988. Early-music ensemble, synthesizer/sampler, tape
- Flake Upon Flake Upon ... 1989. Pieces for young pianists
- ...I, Laika.... 1988-9. flute, cello, piano
- entends, entends le passé qui marche ... 1992. Piano, tape
- Tangram. 1992. Bass clarinet, harpsichord, tape. Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women (1997)
- Voices in Time. 1992-4. Flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, trumpet, horn, harp, percussion, accordion, strings, soundfiles, live electronics (version for chamber orchestra, accordion, soundfiles, live electronics, 1995)
- March 3rd, 1911. 1993. Bass clarinet, piano with or without tape
- Shadow of an Uncounted Journey. 1997-8. Soprano, violin, clarinet / bass clarinet, piano, sound files, images
- Fei Yang 2001. String quartet, free bass accordion
- Four Winds from Heaven (poems in English and Chinese by Robert Louis Stevenson; Amy Lowell; Will. H. Ogilvie; Hope Lee; Bible). 2005. Women's choir
- This Song of Mine. 2007. Soprano
- Secret of the Seven Stars. 2009-11. strings, free bass accordion, percussion
Lee has published professional articles including:
- "A Time for Soul-Searching: A Composer Considers the Last ISCM World Music Days Festival," Musicanada 61, Spring/Summer 1988
- "Eine Tür, durch die wir gehen müssen," Positionen 63, May 2005
Discography
- Hope K. W. Lee: Musical Portrait: CAPAC Musical Portrait, Series 5/No. 21. 1986. AR731
- Melboac: New Music for Harpsichord from Canada and the Netherlands. 1988. Vivienne Spiteri, harpsichord. SNE-542-CD
- ... I, Laika ... (excerpt). 1993. New Works Calgary Ensemble. Canadian Music Centre (Calgary) CD 359
- ... I, Laika ... and entends, entends le passé qui marche ...: e-motion: Acoustic/Electroacoustic Works [with David Eagle]. 1994. New Works Calgary Ensemble, Colleen Athparia piano. New Concert Discs NCD-0294
- entends, entends le passé qui marche ...: Polaris. 1996. Colleen Athparia piano. UNICAL UC CD9601
- Tangram. 1997. Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women, Bloomington, Indiana University Press
- Voices in Time (with Tim Brady). 1999. Musicworks 75, Fall 1999
- Flake Upon Flake Upon... (2 pieces). 2000. Elaine Keillor piano. Studea Musica, BR1336
- flashing into the dark: Namaste Suite. 2003. Aurait [Italy], Mnemes HCD/102
- Duo Solista (excerpt). 2005. Land's End Chamber Music Society, DMP-0182
- Fei Yang and Voices in Time: renew'd at ev'ry glance. 2008. Centrediscs CERE 13708
- Tangram: Ladder of Escape 10. 2008. Attacca Records 28120
- Rubbing Stone and Days Beyond: Rubbing Stone. 2009. Centrediscs CERE 14909
- In the Beginning Was the End: jalsaghar. 2010. Centrediscs
FootNotes
1. "One Thousand Curves, Ten Thousand Colours. Composers, Hope Lee and David Eagle, Ensemble Resonance". Music Works 82 2. "Zwölf Komponistinnen, die man kennen sollte" Die Zeit, 21 September 2011 Zwolf Komponistinnen, die man kennen solte 3. "New Music concerts honor Ann Southam" Robert Everett-Green, The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2011-09-26. 4. "Aufregende werkmischung" Reinhard Müller, Suedkurier, Konstanz. Retrieved 2011-12-05
References
- Citations
- ↑ Briscoe, James R. (1997). Contemporary anthology of music by women.
- ↑ Bazzana, Kevin. "Hope Lee". Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ↑ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 22 December 2010.
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