Angus Lee (b.1992) is one of the foremost performer-composers of his generation. Born and raised in Hongkong, Lee has appeared at international music festivals across Asia, central Europe and North America in his capacities as flautist, composer and conductor. He completed his studies at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2010-14) and the Royal Academy of Music (2014-16) with the highest honours, with his studies fully supported financially by the Aedas Scholarship and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music & Dance Fund.

Lee was by training a conductor, and is recognised as one of Hongkong's leading performers in contemporary music. Since 2016 he has been a core musician of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, and has worked in close quarters with, among others, Hingyan Chan, Unsuk Chin, Brett Dean, Du Yun, Toshio Hosokawa and Zhu Shirui, partaking in the regional and world premieres of their works. Most significantly, Lee has performed as soloist in Pierre Boulez's Mémoriale ( ... explosante-fixe ... Originel) at the composer's 90th birthday concert series (2015) and memorial concert (2016) at the Lucerne Festival. He has also stepped in at short notice at the Hong Kong premiere of composer Eugene Birman's multimedia music theatre, "The Once and Future" (2023), performing in the Berlin Philharmonic's ZeMu! Ensemble Berlin. Lee's recording of Camilo Mendez's solo flute music was also released in 2024 on the composer's monograph, released by the Austrian new music label, KAIROS.

As a composer, Lee was largely autodidactic, but has benefited, in particular, from the tutelage of composers Franck Bedrossian, Oscar Bianchi, Frédéric Durieux, Dimitri Papageorgiou, Philippe Manoury, Isabel Mundry, Yann Robin, and Johannes Schöllhorn at international composition academies. While his earlier works focused largely on the notion of 'virtuosity' and the relationship between notation and realisation, his recent works demonstrate a persistent interest in exploration different forms of musical temporality; his works have been performed by the likes of Ensemble Intercontemporain (FR), Ensemble Modern (DE), Ensemble Multilatérale (FR), HereNowHear (US), Klangforum Wien (AT), Kollektiv Totem (CH), the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Trio Accanto, and the Subaerial Collective (US). In 2022, Lee's first opera, Chasing Waterfalls, received its world premiere at Germany's Semperoper Dresden to critical acclaim; the work subsequently toured back to Hong Kong's New Vision Arts Festival to equally enthusiastic reception. The year 2024 saw the premiere of Des flammes... (2023-24), created for the HK Philharmonic's Robert Ho Hong Kong Composers Scheme, and ... aux cendres (2024), created under the baton of Elim Chan.

Lee is equally in demand as a conductor, largely though not exclusively focused on new music. He was one of the conducting fellows at Ensemble Modern's 10th International Composers and Conductors Seminar, studying under Stefan Asbury. He has additionally worked with Ensemble Suono Giallo, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Musikfabrik. the Hong Kong New Music Enasemble and the Neu Vocalsolisten Stuttgart at the ilSUONO Contemporary New Music Week (2016), Ticino Musica Festival (2018, 2022), the Frankfurt ...cresc... Biennale for Actual Music (2023) and the ECLAT Festival for New Music Stuttgart (2024), premiering the works by emerging fellow young composers. He has also stepped in at short notice to lead the Asian premiere of Michel van de Aa's music theatre, "The Book of Water" at the 2023 Hong Kong Arts Festival. In 2024, he led for the first time the University of Hong Kong's University Philharmonic, performing Bernstein's Candide Overture and Shostakovich's Symphony no.5 in D minor to popular acclaim.

A holder of the Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM), Lee is currently serving as a full-time assistant lecturer at The University of Hong Kong's Music Department, coordinating all of the Department's performance courses in addition to teaching elementary music theory, conducting, chamber music, as well as supervising an undergraduate level capstone practice-based research course. He also teaches woodwind chamber music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He has also served as flute faculty at the Lucerne Festival Academy in 2022 and 2023.

Tam Ka-Shu (Kenneth), based in Hong Kong, draws most of his musical inspiration from the daily auditory experience in his home city. His music is characterized by its complex timbre and its peculiar linearity.

Tam’s works have been performed and have received radio broadcast all over the world. They have also been featured in various international events. His works cover a wide range of genres, ranging from music for traditional forces to multimedia creations. Tam has worked with artists and ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet (UK), Ensemble Mise-En (US), the Hanatsu Miroir (France), the Hayley-Laufer Duo (US/Canada), the dissonArt Ensemble (Greece), the RTHK quartet (Hong Kong), the choreographer/dancer Mary Schnepf (USA), and more.

Tam earned his PhD in Music Composition in the University at Buffalo. He completed his Bachelor in Hong Kong Baptist University and his Master in the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His major composition teachers include David Felder, Cort Lippe, James Mobberley, Zhou Long, Chen Yi, Christopher Keyes and Christopher Coleman.
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Hong Kong pianist Fu Kat-Ho William is known for his deep understanding and maturity in his playing. In 2018, he got a high recommendation prize in the prestigious Lilian Davies Prize of the Royal Academy of Music, a “ mature and serious” performance of the penultimate Beethoven Piano Sonata, which brought him a further concert at Norden Farm Arts Centre in Maidenhead, United Kingdom. His performance then wins critical acclaim. Notable performance includes a full-house recital in Leighton House Museum and City Lit in London, representing prize-winners from Musical Odyssey Masterclass. Recently, he has frequently appeared in Le French May Festival, gives many chamber concerts and a piano recital, in which William cooperates with other art forms, including animation and choreography, and aiming to bring innovation to the classical music field.

William graduated from the master of music programme from the Royal Academy of Music; bachelor from the music department of Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He studies with Prof. Carole Presland and Raymond Young. He has had masterclasses with Nancy Loo, Eleanor Wong, Nikolai Demidenko, Dmitri Alexeev, Imogen Cooper, Robert Levin, James Kirby, Pascal Gallet, Pascal Devoyon, Giuseppe Albanese, Danny Driver, Thomas Rosenkranz.

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