简介： 在李佩鸣的母亲怀她时，音乐已流贯于她的血液中。她的先母许佩女士早期从事西方歌剧演唱，后来专注中西流行歌曲的表演和训练工作。佩鸣三歳开 始学习钢琴，从此，音乐便成为她人生旅程的良伴。完成了多个西方古典音乐学位之后，她开始创作和表演自己的音乐。经过二十多年专心的创作，她先后出 版了六 更多>
在李佩鸣的母亲怀她时，音乐已流贯于她的血液中。她的先母许佩女士早期从事西方歌剧演唱，后来专注中西流行歌曲的表演和训练工作。佩鸣三歳开 始学习钢琴，从此，音乐便成为她人生旅程的良伴。完成了多个西方古典音乐学位之后，她开始创作和表演自己的音乐。经过二十多年专心的创作，她先后出 版了六张个人音乐专辑，并带领李佩鸣乐团以中国乐器演奏个人的作品，同时也为香港中乐团作曲。她曾多次跟满地可多位当代音乐乐坛创始人合作演出、巡回表演 和录音。佩鸣的近作 「她踏浪而来」(She comes to shore) （由Innova Recordings制作），收录了钢琴即兴独奏和以钢琴与交响乐团合奏的即兴协奏曲。她更获得著名的【心舞蹈团】(Kokoro Dance) 委托，创作了六十分钟的弦乐四重奏，于二零一三年在温哥华首演。作为一位表演艺术家，佩鸣先后在加拿大主要的爵士乐节演出，并且走遍美国、欧洲和亚洲巡演。近年，佩鸣接受了【大西洋湾区交响乐团】(Bay-Alantic Orchestra) 的委托，编写以钢琴、打击乐和交响乐结合而成的即兴双重交响乐，将会在二零一四年十一月首演。
李佩鸣对加拿大即兴和现代音乐的贡献，深受广泛的认同，她先后在二零零零年荣获著名的使东大奬（The Freddie Stone Award)，以及二零零五年取得安大略省艺术协会颁发的亨特艺术家大奬 (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.
