Fiona Kizzie Lee
Keyboard, Recorder
Based in Basel and Hong Kong, recorder and early keyboard player Fiona Kizzie Lee performs internationally as a soloist and co-directs award-winning ensembles. Her recent appearances at early music festivals include the London International Early Music Festival (2023, GB), Seviqc Brezice (2023, SI), Salzburger Festtage alter und neuer musik (2023, AT), Muzyka w raju (2023, PL), and Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe (2023, NL). Her ensembles won first prize at the London Early Music Young Ensemble Competition (2022) and became finalists at the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci in Germany (2023) and the International Young Artists Competition in York, England (2019).
Fiona is also a researcher and educator of early music and is frequently invited to teach and lecture at international events such as the facsimile reading workshop at Renaissancemusikwoche in Sondershausen, Germany (2022) and the recorder and medieval ensemble masterclasses at the International Summer School of Early Music in Valtice, Czech Republic (2023).
As a recipient of the Jockey Club Music and Dance Scholarship, Fiona studied at King's College London, gaining a Masters in Musicology (Distinction). She then studied for a second (2019) and third (2021) Masters in recorder and early keyboard performance with Corina Marti at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland. She is now a PhD candidate in Musicology at the University of Zurich, with funding from the UZH Candoc Grant and the Start-Up Grant of the UZH Graduate School.