李勁持 King-chi Lee

King-chi Lee learnt Cantonese Opera movements and singing during her teenage years. She received music training at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in the zheng. She then furthered her studies at the Music Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she completed a Master’s thesis on a Cantonese music method book published in 1916, Hong Kong, examining music publishing culture in the early Cantonese music scene. In collaboration with the Chinese Opera Information Centre, she presented the lecture-concert series, Interpreting Early Cantonese Music (2014-2017). In this series, she invited Cantonese Opera vocalists and musicians to perform early Cantonese operatic pieces and discussed how a “literary singing culture” had once been in development during the early twentieth century.

李勁持少時曾習粵劇身段與唱腔，2010年畢業於香港演藝學院音樂學院，主修箏。其後再於⾹港中⽂⼤學⾳樂系進修碩⼠，論文以1916年於香港出版《絃歌必讀》為題，探討早期粵樂出版文化。她曾為戲曲資料中⼼統籌及主持「民初粤樂探微」講座⾳樂會系列(2014-2017)，邀請多位唱家樂師演繹早期粵樂粵曲，論證民初曾醞釀異於舞台演出的粵曲清唱文化。