Brent Lee

Who is Brent Lee?

Brent Lee is a Canadian composer and professor of Music Composition at the University of Windsor. Growing up, he studied guitar and saxophone. He received a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Music Composition from McGill University in Montreal. Brent showed interest in both computer and electroacoustic music. While still a student, he was awarded several composition prizes through CAPAC and SOCAN, and was one of six young composers to receive a Residency Prize at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Festival in 1988.

Following his studies in Montreal, Lee had residencies in the Netherlands, Bourges and at the Banff Centre, before settlingin Calgary in 1990. There, he taught at the Mount Royal College Conservatory, as well as working with New Works Calgary, Strictly Plutonic and Modus Vivendi ensembles. He was named an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre in 1991.

Brent completed a doctoral degree in composition at the University of British Columbia, studying composition with Keith Hamel and Steven Chatman. Lee also studied orchestration with Nikolai Korndorf in Vancouver. Brent accepted a position at the University of Windsor in 2002, after a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at UBC.