BM (Toronto); MM, PhD (Michigan); ARCT (RCM, Toronto); LTCL, FTCL

Contemporary Music Compositions, Creative Collaborations, Music Composition Pedagogy , Music by Chinese and Chinese-American Composers, Piano Works, Music and Sustainability

Wendy Wan-Ki LEE is a composer-pianist-theorist. Prior to CUHK, she has held teaching positions at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and State University of New York at Binghamton.

Wendy is the recipient of composition commissions and honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Aspen Music Festival, Banff School of Arts, Chicago Ensemble, Contemporary Record Society, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong Composers' Guild, Orford Arts Centre, Renée B. Fisher Composer Award, and many others. Her music, which appears on several CD labels and publishers, has celebrated numerous international performances by members from major orchestras and top-notch chamber ensembles around the world.

Wendy is an avid advocate of contemporary works with diverse musical interests. At CUHK, she was awarded a Humanities Fellowship to work on an interdisciplinary project that involves music, science, and dance. The highlights of this collaboration were featured on Detroit Public Television. Wendy was invited as one of the keynote presenters for Composition in Asia Symposium and Festival at the University of South Florida College of the Arts. Her scholarly work on music by Chinese-American composers has appeared in several journal articles. Wendy had also served on the Committee on Diversity, the Committee on the Status of Women, and the Composition Interest Group of the Society for Music Theory (USA).

Wendy is passionate about teaching. She received the CUHK Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award, a CUHK courseware grant for producing micromodules on instrumental extended techniques, a teaching development and language enhancement grant to conduct research on hybrid teaching, and a Strategic Partnership Award for Research Collaboration with the music faculties and students from the University of Toronto in Canada.

• MUSC1212/1222 Fundamentals of Tonal Music I/II
• MUSC3323 Counterpoint: Tonal and Modern
• MUSC3343 Composition I
• MUSC3353 Composition II
• MUSC3363 Compositoin III
• MUSC3333 Orchestral Techniques
• MUSC3732 Composition: Special Topic III
• MUSC6100 Advanced Composition I
• MUSC6101 Advanced Composition II
• MUSC5211 Special Topics III in "Music and Creativity": Approaches to Collaborative Creativity