Eun Young Lee

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Native Korean Eun Young Lee received the first prize at Tsang-Houei Hsu International Music Composition Award; the 2008 Max Di Julio Prize at the Nevada Encounters of New Music (N.E.O.N.) Festival; Honorable Mention in Great Wall International Competition; won the first regional award in the SCI/ASCAP student composition commission (2006,2009,2010); a recipient of the MacDowell Colony Fellowship 2010; a recipient of Gerald Oshita Memorial Fellowship for the 2010 Djerassi Resident Artist Program and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 2010. Her music is chosen for broadcasts through Art of the States, EBU (European Broadcasting Union) and KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) and is featured in the SCI Journal of Music Scores (Vol. 41) as well as CD series (Vol.23). Prominent ensembles - New York New Music Ensemble, eighth blackbird, Pacifica String Quartet, ALEA III, North/South Consonance Ensemble, Timetable Percussion, Geum-Pa Flute Ensemble - have performed her music. Her instrumental pieces, computer music, multimedia pieces, and film music were featured in festivals/concerts in many countries, including June in Buffalo; SCI Regional Conference; SCI National Conference; MGMC; Czech-America Institute, Prague; Korean Music Expo; 60X60 Project, Vox Novus; Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pinocoteca do estado de Sao Paulo in Brazil, Music09 in Switzerland. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, where her teachers include Shulamit Ran, Marta Ptaszynska, Jan Radzynski, Bernard Rands, and computer music with Howard Sandroff & Kotoka Suzuki and is a recipient of Lowell C. Wadmond Award, Doolittle Harrison Fellowship and Humanities Grant from the University of Chicago. She has undergraduate and graduate degrees (Music Theory) from Ewha Women’s University and taught music for several years before coming to the United States in 1999. Also graduate studies with David Noon at the Manhattan School of Music. She has participated in ACA (Atlantic Center for the Arts) as an Associate Artist-in-Residence to Master Artist, Augusta Read Thomas in 2008.

Current Projects: DVD project- CD-Rom for Children Music Education and Computer Music; solo piano and solo violin works, commissioned by Sejong Cultural Society; Premiere of Solo Piano and electronics, fall 2010; Residency at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, autumn, 2010; Founding Contemporary Multimedia Ensemble, "M...".