Barbican Centre in London, the Warwick Festival, and numerous recital tours around the world.

"...Chee-Hung Toh impressed as a splendid pianist with exceptionally nimble fingers and gracious interpretive habits...The textures were seductively shaded, and 'expressif' passages were tenderly nuanced without breaking the propulsive flow..."--New York Times

"...a rare, exquisite quality where all was harmony, where music became light and perfume. She was music, truth and poetry itself."--Journal de Geneve (Switzerland)

"...deepest research in expressiveness...magnificently gifted..."--La Dauphine Libere (France)

"...the manifold facets of her talent...her playing was characterized by rare finesse...flashes of luminosity, giving sharp contrasts to her performance."--La Libre Belgique (Belgium)

"...a frenzied applause from an audience seduced by (her) masterful interpretation which revealed pianistic brilliance, plastic contours and a myriad of emotional nuances from pure gaiety to heartfelt tenderness."--Westallen Post (Germany)

Dennis Lee is a native of Penang, Malaysia and received his Bachelor of Music degree with First Class Honors from London University and the Master of Music Degree from the Royal College of Music. With an Austrian government scholarship, he went to study with Josef Dichler in Vienna where he attained the Akademie Diploma with distinction and the Stepanow Prize. Lee took first prize in the Royal Overseas League Festival and major prizes in the BBC, Casagrande, Sydney, and Busoni Competitions. Lee also studied with Ilonka Deckers in Milan.

Apart from appearances in festivals like Montreux, Spoleto, Adelaide, Cheltenham, and Brighton, he has been a concerto soloist with the BBC orchestras, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Slovak Chamber, Vienna Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, New Zealand Symphony, Halle, London Mozart Players, Italian Radio, and Shanghai and Singapore Symphonies under such prestigious conductors as Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Colin Davis.

Lee has appeared regularly in concert venues in London, several times in the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and recently in New York, San Francisco, and Minneapolis, as well as Turkey, Malta, Indonesia, France (where he performed all 32 Beethoven Sonatas) and Canada. His superb recording of works of Szymanowski has attracted favorable reviews.

"A quite exceptional pianist."--The Times (London)

"Brilliance and vitality were coupled with a sensuous appreciation of beautiful sound."--The Financial Times (London)

"Elegance and precision, with much care of sound and phrasing..."--Corriere della Sera (Milan)

"A pianist of immense polish."--Sydney Morning Herand (Australia)

"Lee proved his mastery of the piano and the music...Its outer movements came from Lee's fingers with fire and conviction."--Washington Post (US)