WARREN LEE

During a live radio interview when he was only four years old, Warren Lee composed a short "requiem" in memory of his deceased pet bird. Although his televised début with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of six has headlined his career over the years, Warren has quietly produced a substantial catalogue as a composer, including numerous arrangements and original works across different genres, many of which have been recorded and published. From choral works to musicals, transcriptions to sight‑reading exercises for the piano, and from popular songs to official school hymns, Warren consistently strives for a balance between originality and immediate appeal. His latest, QUIET The Musical, premiered in 2026 to critical acclaim in Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

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His choral composition House Rules – based on the famous Nokia ringtone and dedicated to those whose phones have gone off during concerts – won Second Prize at the Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award in Switzerland in 2013. His compositions are published by Universal Edition (Austria), Porfiri & Horvath (Germany), Pavane Publishing (United States), Brio Music Press (Hong Kong), and the Hong Kong Children's Choir, and have been performed around the world – from New York to London, Vienna to South Africa. Many of his choral works are dedicated to the choirs at St. Paul's Co-educational College and its affiliated primary school, and he has also been commissioned by the Music Children Foundation, the Hong Kong Inter-School Choral Festival (where he serves as a Board Member), the Jockey Club MuSe Project, and the Harvard University Choir.

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Beyond composition, Warren is an acclaimed concert pianist on the distinguished Steinway Artist roster and a Naxos recording artist. With twelve solo and chamber albums to his credit – garnering over 16 million streams – The American Record Guide calls him "a first‑rate artist." In recognition of his significant contributions to the music profession, Warren has received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in Hong Kong (2012), an Associateship from the Royal Academy of Music (2015), and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Yale School of Music (2017). A lifelong learner and polymath, Warren holds graduate degrees in business administration from HKUST, and in sports, media and intellectual property law from the University of London, outside of music, and has authored a wide range of business cases for HKUST.