Fonds F0222 - Hope Lee fonds

Hope (Anne Keng-Wei) Lee was born in Taiwan January 14th, 1953, and began studying piano at the age of 5. Lee's family moved to Canada in 1967 where she became a naturalized Canadian in 1974. She received her BSc from the University of Toronto in 1973, intending to pursue medicine, but switched to music in 1974. Lee received her B Mus (1978) and M Mus (1981) from McGill University. While at McGill, Lee studied piano with Rose Goldblatt and Louis-Philippe Pelletier, electronic music with Mariano Etkin, Alcides Lanza, and Bengt Hambraeus, and composition with Hambraeus, John Rea, and Brian Cherney. She also studied with Klaus Huber at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, West Germany. In 1980 Lee married the composer David Eagle.

Since 1978, Lee has taken part in numerous international music courses and festivals including Austria, France, and Hong Kong, at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (1989) and the Oriental Music Festival in Durham, England (1979). She has also attended the first International Women Composers' Conference in West Berlin (1982); was composer-in-residence at the Künstlerhaus Boswil in Switzerland (1985); and was a visiting instructor in composition at Queen's University (1986-7) and the University of Calgary (1999, 2001, 2003-4). She studied Chinese traditional music and poetry, as well as computer music, in Berkeley, California, 1987-90; in 1990 she and Eagle moved to Calgary.

Lee is described as a "cross-cultural explorer," and has incorporated her study of Chinese traditional music and poetry with her knowledge of computer music into a number of multimedia presentations. Her work has won numerous awards.