The studio
Octavus Music was founded by Dr Elsa Lee, a pianist and lecturer at HKBU, HKAPA and HKU SPACE, as a place where teachers, students and performers can work at their best. We offer a professional, quality experience at every stage of your music journey, through the hardware and software we have built: from the design of our studio to the robust features of our apps.
Inside you'll find a Baldwin grand, a Steinway & Sons upright and a Yamaha Performance Series YUS3 upright, all maintained to performance standard, along with a projector and screen, stereo speakers, and a camera and microphones to record any session.
Octavus is Latin for “eighth”: the octave, which holds the twelve tones that are the building blocks of Western music. Latin is also the language in which Western music was first taught and written down, from Boethius’s treatise on music to the chant that gave us modern notation. Our mission is to be a foundation for every stage of a musician’s journey: in our studio and services, in our masterclasses and workshops, and through the digital education tools we develop. Each one is a building block of the music you make.
The team
Pianist, educator and scholar. Doctor of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music, with further degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and HKU SPACE.
yyelsalee.comRenowned pianist in Hong Kong.
Sound and recording engineer.