Lee Pui Ming

在李佩鳴的母親懷她時，音樂已流貫于她的血液中。她的先母許佩女士早期從事西方歌劇演唱，后來專注中西流行歌曲的表演和訓(xùn)練工作。佩鳴三歳開 始學(xué)習(xí)鋼琴，從此，音樂便成為她人生旅程的良伴。完成了多個西方古典音樂學(xué)位之后，她開始創(chuàng)作和表演自己的音樂。經(jīng)過二十多年專心的創(chuàng)作，她先后出 版了六張個人音樂專輯，并帶領(lǐng)李佩鳴樂團(tuán)以中國樂器演奏個人的作品，同時也為香港中樂團(tuán)作曲。她曾多次跟滿地可多位當(dāng)代音樂樂壇創(chuàng)始人合作演出、巡回表演 和錄音。佩鳴的近作 「她踏浪而來」(She comes to shore) （由Innova Recordings制作），收錄了鋼琴即興獨奏和以鋼琴與交響樂團(tuán)合奏的即興協(xié)奏曲。她更獲得著名的【心舞蹈團(tuán)】(Kokoro Dance) 委托，創(chuàng)作了六十分鐘的弦樂四重奏，于二零一三年在溫哥華首演。作為一位表演藝術(shù)家，佩鳴先后在加拿大主要的爵士樂節(jié)演出，并且走遍美國、歐洲和亞洲巡演。近年，佩鳴接受了【大西洋灣區(qū)交響樂團(tuán)】(Bay-Alantic Orchestra) 的委托，編寫以鋼琴、打擊樂和交響樂結(jié)合而成的即興雙重交響樂，將會在二零一四年十一月首演。
李佩鳴對加拿大即興和現(xiàn)代音樂的貢獻(xiàn)，深受廣泛的認(rèn)同，她先后在二零零零年榮獲著名的使東大奬（The Freddie Stone Award)，以及二零零五年取得安大略省藝術(shù)協(xié)會頒發(fā)的亨特藝術(shù)家大奬 (K. M. Hunter Artist Award)。
Lee Pui Ming had music in her blood before she was born. Her mother was a singer first of western operas, later a performer and teacher of popular Chinese and western songs. Songs, of all kinds, swam in the womb. Pui Ming began piano lessons at the age of three. Music travelled with her, and she travelled through music.
After several academic degrees in western classical music, Pui Ming made a turn and began the path of creating and performing her own music. Six recordings and decades later, she has led The Lee Pui Ming Ensemble performing her compositions of contemporary music for Chinese instruments, and composed for The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. She has performed, toured and recorded with the founding members of the musique actuelle community from Montreal. Her most recent recording, “she comes to shore” (Innova Recordings), contains improvised solos and a concerto for improvised piano and orchestra. A 60-mins commission from Kokoro Dance premiered in Vancouver in 2013 with a score for string quartet. As a performing artist, Pui Ming has played every major jazz festival in Canada, and toured the U.S., Europe and Asia. A Double Concerto for improvised piano, percussion and orchestra commissioned by The Bay-Atlantic Orchestra is scheduled to premiere in November, 2014. Lee Pui Ming has been awarded The Freddie Stone Award (2000) recognizing her contribution to improvised music in Canada, and the K. M. Hunter Artist Award (2005) from The Ontario Arts Council.
by Joslyn Layne
Toronto-based pianist and modern composer Lee Pui Ming has been an active participant in North American new music since the early '90s, leading her own ensemble, composing for film, and collaborating with a number of respected musicians. Her own compositions blend modern classical, jazz, traditional Chinese music, and even improvisation. Lee Pui Ming also frequently incorporates her voice and extended piano techniques (using the body and strings) into her dynamic live performances. Ming was born in 1956 in Hong Kong and has extensive training in Western classical piano. She leads an ensemble which has toured Asia and Canada and recorded an album, Nine-Fold Heart (Pochee), which was nominated for a Best Global Recording Juno award in the mid-'90s. Ming has other albums on the Pochee label, including her first release Ming (1991) and Taklamakan (1999) and has a release, Strange Beauty -- New Music for Piano, on the Dorian label. Lee Pui Ming has composed for several films and for the Canadian production The Yoko Ono Project, a multimedia show about the artist, her works, and public image. In the late '90s Ming performed in a series of improvised duets with Montreal new music figures René Lussier, Jean Derome, and Pierre Tanguay. She has performed at several new music festivals and has collaborated with improvisers such as Joelle Leandre, Otomo Yoshihide, and Chris Cutler.