Hong Kong carillonist and organist Zoe Lei performs at Burton Memorial Tower in our “2023: A Century of Women and the Carillon” summer concert series. All concerts are free and family-friendly!
This year’s series features performers from across the country and world playing the great 53-bell Charles Baird Carillon in Burton Tower. The carillon is an outdoor instrument, and attendees are encouraged to bring picnic blankets, chairs, and anything else they’d like to feel comfortable. Concert programs and a carillon coloring book for kids are available from concert staff at or near the tower door. Restrooms are available in the Michigan League.
The nearest municipal parking structures are at 324 Maynard and at 510 E Washington. Street parking is limited.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Zoe Lei is finishing her doctoral studies in Sacred Music at the University of Michigan. She studies the organ with Nicole Keller, previously studied with James Kibbie and Todd Wilson, and received coaching from Aaron Tan. She also studies the carillon with Tiffany Ng and is an Associate Carillonneur member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America.
Zoe won second prize at the 2021 Hong Kong Young Organist Competition (American Guild of Organists), third prize at the 2022 Sursa Organ Competition, and was the only recipient in the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance of the Rackham International Student Fellowship in 2022. She was a semi-finalist for the 2022 National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance (American Guild of Organists), and co-winner of the American Guild of Organists Commissioning Project (2021–2022). In 2021, she was selected by “The Diapason” magazine for its annual “20 under 30” feature. Zoe serves as the assistant organist at Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian Church in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.