Yat Lee

Hong Kong violist Yat Lee has been performing extensively across Europe, the United States, Asia, and the Middle East, where he performed in prestigious concert halls and venues such as the Victoria Hall, Musikverein Wien, Wiener Konzerthaus, Berlin Konzerthaus, Royal Albert Hall, Opera de Monte Carlo, Carnegie Hall, and KKL Luzern, Shanghai Concert Hall, Suzhou Museum.

As an avid chamber musician, he has studied with members of the Borromeo, Takacs, Emerson, and Vermeer String Quartet among others. He performed with eminent musicians such as Maxim Vengerov, Nobuko Imai, Liviu Prunaru, Renaud Capucon, Antonio Lysy, Gilbert Kailish, Miro Quartet and American String Quartet. He has been invited to festivals such as Wien Modern, Prussia Cove, Stauffer, Pablo Casals, Gstaad Menuhin, Megeve, Bellerive, Kuhmo, Music@Menlo, and Beare’s Premiere Music Festival. He has appeared on worldwide television networks, such as Leman Bleu, ORF, and RTHK.

He was the winner at the Kreisler Institute Competition, Vienna, and the Ruth Widder competition, New York. He is also a scholar of Dr. Martha Sobotka-Charlotte Janeczek Stiftung and the Bei Shan Tang Foundation.

As an orchestral musician, he has been invited as principal violist at Menuhin Soloists, Klangforum Bern, Webern Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong String Orchestra, as well as a guest player at the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Musicus Soloist Hong Kong, and has performed under the baton of renowned conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi, Kirill Petrenko, and Daniel Harding. Lee studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna and the International Menuhin Music Academy with full scholarship, under the tutelage of Ivan Vukcevic, Maxim Vengerov, Gabor Takacs Nagy, Wolfgang Klos, and Ulrich Schönauer.

Lee is currently studying at the Manhattan School of Music under Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec with full scholarship.