Yoon-Ji Lee

Yoon-Ji Lee

Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music
Yoon-Ji Lee

Yoon-Ji Lee is a Korean composer based in Boston and New York. She has been creating music based on unconventional and non-linear structure with a powerful focus on quickly juxtaposing disparate elements through the rapid transformation in both acoustic and electroacoustic mediums. Her works have been engaged with visual arts, dance, literature and intercultural influences. Lee’s chamber and electronic music have been performed in Korea and around the U.S., by ensembles including JACK Quartet, MIVOS Quartet, Argento Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Talea Ensemble, ensemble mise-en, and many others in venues such as Merkin Concert Hall, the Stone at the New School, Chelsea Art Museum, Galerie Pangée (Montreal), and the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (Seoul). Her music has been broadcast by Korean National Music (Gugak) FM Radio and presented at conference such as the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, New Music Miami ISCM Festival, and New York Sound Circuit Festival. Lee received Mass Cultural Council's Artist Fellowship, the Jane Geuting Camp Fellowship from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Patsy Lu Award from International Alliance of Women in Music, and the Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship from NYU. Lee has participated in artist residencies at National Sawdust, Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. Her research includes psychoacoustics, improvisation, American experimental music, and intercultural music. Lee earned her PhD at NYU and did her Masters/GD at New England Conservatory. 

  

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