An inter-disciplinary music artist, composer, music producer, and harpist, Che-Yi Lee was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Since he started his music career, he has composed close to 2,000 works, arranged nearly 5,000 works, and produced approximately 120 albums and over 100 large-scale theatrical works. As a professional performer, he has performed in more than 2,000 concerts across Asia, Europe, and the United States.
Lee was nominated for the “Golden Melody Awards” for 43 times and won Best Composer and Best Creation in the 23rd and 27th Awards respectively. In 2022, he was nominated for Best Original Film Score in the “Golden Horse Awards”. In 2015, he won Best Dance Music in the Hong Kong Dance Alliance Dance Awards. He was also a two-time winner of Best Classical Music Album in the “Top 10 Albums of the Year in China”. In 2010, he was nominated for Best Classical Performance Album in the “Chinese Music Awards”. In 1999, he won the third prize in the USA International Jazz Harp Competition – the first Asian winner since the founding of the Competition 21 years ago. He was the composer in residence of the National Chinese Orchestra Taiwan in 2016, Music Director of the 28th to 30th Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music, and Music Producer of the Taipei 101 New Year’s Eve Fireworks Display from 2015 to 2017.
After years as a performer and composer, Lee felt deeply the importance of local cultures and a need to pass on the legacies. At the beginning of 2017, he co-founded the OneSong Orchestra with Rick Lei, an entrepreneur. He hopes to revive people’s memory of the local music and cultures and share them with a wider audience. Lee is the current Music Director and composer in residence of the OneSong Orchestra.