Zhao Jiping’s “Zhuang Zhou’s Dream” ...... is an undulant, soft-spoken and elusive meditation for solo cello and Chinese orchestra, lasting 20 minutes. The excellent cellist Trey Lee, born in Hong Kong and trained at the Juilliard School, played the solo part with enveloping richness and lyrical sensitivity.

"Last weekend’s multiple events, judiciously billed as the territory’s first “international chamber music festival”, were hardly short on glitz...but the focus was clearly on the repertoire and its ethos.

Much of the credit goes to the Hong Kong-born, Juilliard and Harvard-educated cellist Trey Lee, who, in conjunction with the local presenter Premiere Performances, amassed a roster of emerging, like-minded players similar enough to be musically compatible, yet different enough to keep things interesting."

"Trey Lee is a former Juilliard student who spent five years as a management consultant before returning to study with Laurence Lesser and Frans Helmerson and winning the 2004 Antonio Janigro Cello Competition.  He presents Schumann, Chopin and Mendelssohn for his sophomore disc, as EMI terms it (3 63044 2).  A master of the subtle transition between moods, he achieves a lovely, dreamy feel for the Fantasiestücke, and characterizes the Fünf Stücke im Volkston charmingly, with flowing, luscious double-stops in no.3."