Basel-based performer and musicologist Fiona Kizzie Lee is frequently praised by critiques for her exceptional versatility, demonstrating equal artistry on recorders—including pipe and tabor and double recorder—and early keyboard instruments such as organetto and clavisimbalum. Her performances, as the director of Ensemble Pampinea, but also with various other early music ensembles, have taken her across Europe and beyond in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovenia, Italy, Lithuania, Austria, the Netherlands, and Canada. ​

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Alongside her performing career, Lee is an active educator and speaker in the field of early music. She has taught at the Renaissancemusikwoche in Sondershausen (Germany) and the International Summer School of Early Music in Valtice (Czech Republic), as well as given guest lectures and workshops at the Education University of Hong Kong, the University of Calgary, and the Ljubljana Academy of Music.

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A Scholar of The Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund and The UZH Candoc Grant, Lee combines artistic excellence with meticulous scholarship. She obtained two Master’s degrees in Medieval/Renaissance recorder and early keyboard performance in the class of Corina Marti at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. Her doctoral dissertation, “15th-Century Central European Keyboard Tablatures in Context,” was awarded summa cum laude at the University of Zurich.