ABOUT
Specialising in Medieval and Renaissance Music, Recorder and Keyboard Player Fiona Kizzie Lee is a soloist and a co-founder/ founder of the La Fiamma and L'Artiste and other early music ensembles.
Fiona Kizzie Lee was born in Hong Kong in 1994, and started her musical training from a young age. Having graduated with first class honours at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Music, undergraduate), she first pursued a Masters in Musiocology (Distinction) in London under the support of the Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund 2016/17 and then decided to move to Basel to further her studies specifically in early music performance, earning a Master’s degree in Performance of Medieval Music (Distinction, 2019) and a Specialised master’s degree in Renaissance Music (Distinction, 2021) in the class of Corina Marti.
She is now a solo and ensemble performer based in Basel, frequently presenting repertoires of English Music in the 15th century, as well as German instrumental music from the 15th to 16th centuries. As director of Ensemble .q.p.i.t. and co-director of La Fiamma, the groups have been selected as finalist and semi-finalist in the International Young Artists Competition in York, England (2019) and the Internationaal Van Wassenaer Concours in Utrecht, Netherlands (2019) respectively.
As a researcher she is now reading a Doctorate in Musiology at the University of Zürich. Her project is on 15th-century German Organ tablatures, funded by the UZH Candoc Grant and the Start-Up Grant from the Graduate school of UZH.
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