He owes his first initiative move in musical career to the film: “Farinelli”;

during his late teen, without any knowledge in Baroque music history,

  he got acquainted with the term of “Countertenor/ Castrato.” Since

    then, his ever ending researches in countertenor repertoire began.

      With his wide repertoire range from Baroque to Contemporary and

         Jazz to New Age, he is at ease singing in operas as well as in

          concerts in collaboration with many International Orchestras and

           Opera Companies working with many re-known Conductors in

            the past, such as Christoph Eschenbach, Kenneth  Montgomery,

              Timothy Vernon, William Christie, Andrey Boreykyo, Sergiu

              Comissiona, Edoardo Müller, Martin Haselböck, Alfred Eschwé,

               Carlos Miguel Prieto, Andrea Marcon, Alessandro de Marchi,

                Jean Christoph Spinosi, Matthew Halls, Ion Marin, Laurence

                 Cummings, Simone Young, Anu Tali, Federico Maria Sardelli,

                   Marcus Creed, Rene Jacobs, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin to

                   name a few.

         

                   In his 2006/07 season, he has made his Triumph European

                Opera debut appearance at the Hamburg Staatsoper singing

                the Handel’s Title Role: “Radamisto” and Vienna Volksoper

                 in Austria singing Oberon from Britten’s “Midsummer night’s

                 Dream”. Ever since his European Debut, he had frequent

                 appearances at the Hamburgische staatsoper, Zurich

                   Opera, Theater Basel, Dresden Semperoper, Berlin

                    Komischeoper, Deutscheoper am Rhein, Halle Oper,

                    Korean National Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Stanislavsky

                       Opera in Moscow, and La Scala Milano to name a few                            
                                 among many other International Music Festivals.
       

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David DQ Lee is fast establishing an enviable reputation among countertenors of his generation as mentioned by Elissa Poole in the Globe and Mail,

“With a powerful instrument and high A’s to rival any mezzos, reinterprets the same kind of voice as something voluptuous and exotic.”

An award winner of numerous international competitions; such as Francisco Viñas International Singing Competition in Barcelona, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World,

   Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in New York, Mirjam Helin

       International Singing Competition in Finland, Queen Elizabeth International

         Competition in Belgium, Musica Sacra International Competition in Italy,

            Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition, Young Concert Artist inc.

              International Competition, George London Competition in New York to

                name a few.

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