Colleen Lee

Colleen Lee Ka-ling (Traditional Chinese:李嘉齡)(born October 11, 1980) is a Hong Kong pianist who won the 6th place prize in the 15th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in 2005. Lee began piano lessons when she was four, and started studying with Miss Eleanor Wong upon admission to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts only two years later. She graduated valedictorian in 2001 (Bachelor’s) and again in 2003 (Professional Diploma), and has since been working with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule in Hannover, Germany. She has given recitals extensively on nearly every continent, in venues from Carnegie Hall in New York to Chopin’s Manor in Poland, and has collaborated with many major orchestras, performing works from Bach to...