GALA CONCERT
Asian Harmonica Variations
Thursday, Oct. 30th, 2025
8:15 pm
Dr. Ernst Hohner Concerthall / Trossingen
Gordon Lee (Hong Kong SAR, China)
Harmonica player Gordon Lee garnered international attention since he won the champion prize at the prestigious 8th World Harmonica Festival in Germany in 2017. In 2024, Lee was awarded the "Young Artist of the Year Award" by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, and in the same year, he received the "Music Advocacy Award" from the International Society for Music Education in Finland.
He was under the tutelage of two-time Grammy Award winner Howard Levy, Franz Chmel and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Master’s degree teacher Tak-wai Cheng.
As a soloist, Lee has performed extensively with prestigious orchestras, namely Bursa Regional State Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. He was also invited to be a guest performer and adjudicator in numerous music festivals across Asia, America and Europe. In 2022, he held Hong Kong's first-ever solo harmonica concert at the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, and was recognized as a "world-class soloist " by the IATC, a renowned international organization of critics.
At the anniversary World Harmonica Festival he will perform together with his Encore Trio consisting of Gordon Lee, CHENG Tak-wai and HE Liyan.
Further information about the Encore Trio you will find here