Lee Yat – Past Concerts

Born in Hong Kong, violist Lee Yat is one of the 2021 honorable mentions of the Musicus Society's Young Artist Audition program. He received a scholarship prize from the Junior Music Program of Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he studied violin and chamber music. At the age of 16, Lee switched to viola.

Lee was admitted at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna at the age of 17, where he studied viola under the tutelage of Professor Wolfgang Klos and Professor Urlich Schönauer. He also took baroque viola lessons periodically from Hiro Kurosaki and Rainer Ingomar. In 2018, he received full scholarship at the International Menuhin Music Academy where he studied under Ivan Vukcevic, Maxim Vengerov, and chamber music from Gabor Takacs Nagy. He took part in masterclasses given by renowned artists including Richard O'Neill, Nobuko Imai, Gérard Caussé, and Pinchas Zukerman.

Lee is the 2nd prize winner of the string competition in University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and a recipient of the Dr. Martha Sobotka-Charlotte Janeczek Stiftung. He has performed in festivals such as Wien Modern, Allegro Vivo, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Megeve Festival, Pablo Casals Festival, and Beare's Premiere Music Festival.

Lee currently plays an 1800 John Betts viola loaned to him by the PostScript Collection through the Beare's International Violin Society.