Eun Young Lee

Eun Young Lee
Education
OccupationComposer
EmployerBoston Conservatory at Berklee
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2023)
Academic background
ThesisSori (2011)
Shulamit Ran
Musical career
GenresClassical music

Eun Young Lee is a South Korean composer based in the United States. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and an associate professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Biography

Eun Young Lee studied at Ewha Womans University where she obtained a BM and MM in music theory, and the Manhattan School of Music, where she obtained her MM in composition.[1] She obtained her PhD in Composition from the University of Chicago in 2011;[1] her doctoral dissertation Sori was supervised by Shulamit Ran.[2]

She won the first-place prize at the 2006 Tsang-Houei Hsu International Music Composition Competition.[3] In 2010, she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, for work on her commissions for the Sejong Cultural Society and University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music,[4] as well as a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship.[1] In 2014, she started working at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she then became associate professor of composition.[1]

David Schulenberg praised Antico Moderno's 2016 performance of her piece Gil as "imaginative use of the ensemble’s distinctive sonorities".[5] One of her pieces, "Mool", was performed in Liza Stepanova's 2017 piano album E Pluribus Unum.[6]

She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition in 2023[7] and another MacDowell Fellowship in 2024;[4] she used both of them for her piece Pax Aeterna, inspired by the Korean conflict and folk music from both Koreas.[4] One of her composed pieces, "Nam-Ok Lee", was featured on pianist Jihye Chang's 2024 album Boston Etudes.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Eun Young Lee". Boston Conservatory at Berklee. January 1, 2011. Archived from the original on March 20, 2025. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Holdings: Sori". University of Chicago. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  3. ↑ Donahue, Tori (April 7, 2023). "Boston Conservatory at Berklee Faculty Member Receives Guggenheim Fellowship". Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 "Eun Young Lee - MacDowell Fellow in Music Composition". MacDowell. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  5. ↑ Schulenberg, David (January 23, 2016). "Modish Antics from Antico Moderno". The Boston Musical Intelligencer. Archived from the original on June 20, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  6. ↑ "E Pluribus Unum". Navona Records. Archived from the original on June 15, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Eun Young Lee". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  8. ↑ Blumhofer, Jonathan (December 15, 2024). "Classical Album Reviews: "Boston Etudes" and "American Sketches"". The Arts Fuse. Archived from the original on March 26, 2025. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
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