Oonagh Lee

Oonagh Lee has performed across the UK and in Europe as a soloist and with the award-winning quintet Consortium5. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Daniel Bruggen and Peter Holtslag, during which time she was awarded numerous prizes, including the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for Performance, with Consortium5 in 2006, a Foundation Award 2006, the Craxton Memorial Trust Award 2005, and first prize in the Friends of the Royal Academy Early Music Prize, 2004. In 2006 she was awarded the DipRAM, the Royal Academy’s highest postgraduate honour for her Finals Performance in 2006.
 
Since graduating Oonagh has been resident with Consortium5 on the Live Music Now scheme, a finalist in the Early Music Network Young Artists Competition 2007 and a Junior Fellow at Trinity College of Music, 2007-2009. As a performer committed to contemporary music, Oonagh was resident on the Park Lane Group Young Artists Series with Consortium5 in 2009, making her Purcell Room debut in January of that year. She has performed in numerous festivals and concerts, in venues as diverse as Brixton Prison, London, the port wine cellars of Villa de Gaia, Portugal, the Barbican, the Southbank Centre and Windsor Castle.
 
As well as performing regularly with Consortium5, Oonagh currently freelances on historical oboes. She is also a keen educator, working for Enfield Arts Support Service, Kew Young Musicians and Islington Council, teaching individuals, group lessons and whole class projects.

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