Lee Qing is a former undergraduate student at Boston University, majoring in Music Composition and Theory. Her musical journey began in Singapore, when she was introduced to composition via the Music Elective Programme (MEP) at age 15. Since then, she has pursued composition vigorously. Her compositional interests include creating a dialogue between past and present through the recontextualization of historical sounds and compositional techniques, something she aims to complement with musicological studies and further pieces that will involve working with older repertory more directly.
In addition, she has an ongoing interest in writing both music and text for new operas, and using the genre as a vehicle to provoke discussion about history through multiple perspectives. Ongoing projects include The Murals of Mur, a monodrama about how a Romanesque fresco came to be in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Ermessenda, a libretto about one of the most powerful countesses in medieval Catalonia.
As a performer, she was involved with BU’s new music ensemble and various student projects as a percussionist. She has also performed her own works on piano. As of Spring 2024, she plays the harpsichord for the school’s Baroque Ensemble, which she continues to attend after graduation.