Gabrielle Lee

Performance

Gabrielle will join Fritz Hauser, Ian Cleworth, Louise Devenish, Paul Tanner and Joey Eng in a concert of short solo works that explore the breadth of percussion and the artistry and styles of each artist.

Artist Bio

My Hakka Grandmother
Composed by Gabrielle Lee for percussion and voice. Poem by Eileen
Chong. Composed in 2021.
Eileen Chong is a Sydney-based poet, born in Singapore of Chinese
descent. Her poems radiate her experiences around food, family,
migration, love and loss. I came across her poem ‘My Hakka Grandmother’
while in search of Hakka text to set to music. It is my absolute privilege to
be able to accompany her words with her permission, using my voice and
percussion instruments.

Artist Bio

Gabby is a percussion educator, freelance percussionist and composer
based in Perth, Western Australia. Gabby holds a wide range of skills from
percussion, composition, electronic music production and producing
events. As a composer and performer, Gabby’s personal works seek to
explore a deeper understanding into the human condition and finding
direction to hope through storytelling. Her compositions and performances
are very much inspired by her Christian faith and is often the drive for the
creative projects she pursues. She has recently released her first album as
a core member and co-founder of the band Neshama Selah, which
consists of alumni from WAAPA’s jazz, contemporary and classical cohorts.