Adam YEE

Adam Yee (b. 1974) is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia, where his principal study was oboe. Whilst at VCA, Adam founded KleZeyn Theatre, who have produced his Road to Hell is Paved with Slaughter (1993) and Bangers (1994).

Adam has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with the Libra Ensemble, both as an oboist (in works by Michael WHITICKER, Chris DENCH and David YOUNG) and composer (shiru l'adonai shir Hadash¹ (1994), reshit HoHama yi'rat adonai² (1995) and sefirot (1995)). reshit  . . .  was performed by Libra Ensemble as part of the eighth Sydney Spring Festival of New Music, and broadcast on ABC Classic FM. Adam's first piece for ELISION Ensemble, Zephania, was premiered at ELISION's tenth anniversary concert, and subsequently at the 1996 Melbourne Festival. His second ELISION Ensemble commission, the quartet yashar yeHezu panemo³, is to be premiered in 1999.

In 1995 Adam was awarded the 2MBS-FM Young Composer's Award for his piano solo Lot, which was premiered by the inaugural winner of the Ivo Pogorelich International Piano Competition, Michael Kieran Harvey. Also in 1995, Adam was awarded a $20,000 Nescafe Big Break to assist in the composition of his next opera Cannibal Pearce. The opera is an exploration of the life and death of the Van Diemen's Land convict/cannibal Alexander Pearce (died 1824), and is to be premiered in 2000.

In March of 1998, Adam received the first City of Glen Eira Solo Piano Composition Award. Performances in 1998/99 include the premiere of his tenor recorder solo, lev nishbar v'nidkeh⁴, by composer/performer Ian SHANAHAN, a new quintet for Libra Ensemble, titled amar naval b'libo⁵ in September 1998, and ELISION Ensemble's performance of shiru l'adonai shir Hadash for Radio Bremen in May 1998.

In February 1998 Adam was appointed as the foundation composition teacher at Victoria's leading secondary college, Melbourne High School, where he is implementing his own two-year syllabus.

August 1998

1.	`Sing to the Lord a new song´ (Ps. 51)
2.	`The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord´ (Ps. 111)
3.	`The righteous shall behold His countenance´ (Ps. 11)
4.	`A heart broken and crushed´ (Ps. 51)
5.	`The fool says in his heart  . . . ´ (Ps. 14)