In the conservatoire, she received prestigious guidance from her teachers, the renowned Dutch fortepianists, Dr. Bart van Oort and Mr. Stanley Hoogland.

 

 

 

Background

 

Constanze was born in Hong Kong. She began to have piano lessons since the age of five. Later, she studied piano performance in the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1996 with Mr. Gabriel Kwok, where she was awarded her Diploma in Music and Bachelor degree in Piano with Honours.

 

She also received the diploma of Licentiate in Piano Performance (with Distinction) from the Trinity College of Music, as well as the Advanced Certificate of Piano Performance (with Distinction) from the Royal Schools of Music.

 

 

 

Awards

 

During her studies, Constanze was awarded several prestigious scholarships, including the Bloomberg Scholarship and a scholarship from the Liberal Arts department leaded by Prof. Betty Wei, where she toured Europe in summer 2000 with her research in fine arts.

 

Later on, when she pursued her studies in the Netherlands, in 2001 to 2004, she was awarded two times continuously the honoured full scholarships from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund.

 

 

Performance

 

Constanze enjoys performing solo and chamber repertoire. She has given numerous concerts in Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria.

 

She has performed in the Grachten Festival Amsterdam, Utrecht Early Music Festival’s fringe concert and in the Austrian Carinthia’s Music festival with the Hong Kong Academy Orchestra.

 

In 2006, she performed a Mozart’s concerto with the Royal Conservatoire Orchestra, conducted by Ryo Terakado to celebrate the 250 anniversary of Mozart’s birthday, where she received comments from music critics that ‘Constanze Lee performed the concerto in a magisterial manner’. (HAGAZ!INE, January 2006)

 

In 2008, Constanze gave concerts regularly with her vocal ensemble, Trio Luscinia, featuring with a Canadian Soprano, Stefanie True and an Austrian mezzo-soprano, Michaela Riener. They performed throughout the Netherlands, including in the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, the Muziekcentrum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Muziekcentrum Vredenburg in Utrecht.

 

Besides, Constanze also performed with the Dutch opera singer, Franciska Dukel, as a duo, specialising Dutch and German lieder from the 19th century and 20th century. They just had a recording with Mendelssohn Lieder on Radio 4 in The Netherlands in February 2009.

 

 

 

 

Career

 

Constanze was the guest harpsichordist in the Hong Kong Sinfonietta from 2001 to 2011. And she has been the accompanist of the Henry Blackmon Singers in The Hague.

 

About her teaching experience, she worked as a coach in ensemble performance practice at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2003. Currently she has her private teaching studios in Hong Kong and The Netherlands.