
Constance Lee, first prize winner at the Taiwan National Young Music Talent Competition, she entered the “Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst” in Vienna at the age of 14 and graduated with the honor of “Par Excellence” in 1980. She studied with such Pianists as Stanislav Neuhaus, Alicia Kezeradze and Dimitri Bashkirov, as well as German Maestro Wilhelm Kempff.
Professor at the Taipei National University of the Arts since 1986, Constance Lee pursued her career with numerous solo recitals, chamber music concerts with other well-known musicians in Europe, Russia, Canada, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. She also performed with several orchestras such as the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Orchestra, the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra(NSO) and the Taipei City Orchestra.
Constance Lee is also a multi-facetted artist who created with other artists an experimental theatre production entitled “ The Outrageous Essays by Three Outspoken Women” and she collaborated with the City Contemporary Dance Company of Hong Kong and the Cloud Gate Dance Company of Taiwan in their production of I. Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”. She also created multi-media performance staged at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Kuan Du Arts Festival.
Constance Lee has recently undertaken a series of piano recitals, and she has been invited as a jury to several piano competitions, including the "International Leschetizky Competition".
In 2005, she writes the music of one of the three themes of Hu Hsiao Hsien movie "Three times", that participated to the Cannes film fectival in the official selection.
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