Yoon-Ji Lee
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Yoon-Ji Lee creates music based on unconventional and nonlinear structures that focus on quickly transforming different languages, noises, gestures, textures, harmonies, and tone colors in both acoustic and electroacoustic mediums. Her most recent works have engaged with visual arts, dance, literature, and intercultural influences. Her music has been performed in Korea and in the U.S. by Argento Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, and ensemble mise-en, among many others, and in music venues including New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall, the Stone at the New School, Chelsea Art Museum, and the Galerie Pangée in Montreal, Canada, as well as at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul. Her music has been broadcast by Korean National Music (Gugak) FM Radio.
Lee received the Jane Geuting Camp Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), the Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship from New York University (NYU), and the Patsy Lu Award from the International Alliance of Women in Music. She has participated in artist residencies at National Sawdust, VCCA, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her research includes psychoacoustics, improvisation, American experimental music, and intercultural music.
Lee received her Ph.D. in 2015 and her dissertation on Elliott Sharp’s "THEN GO," written for P’ansori and intonarumori, examines the unsettling and unsettled identities of intercultural music composition, and the previously understudied problems of intercultural performing and listening. Before coming to Berklee, Lee taught at NYU for seven years.
- Premieres by International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Argento Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Mivos Quartet, and Talea Ensemble
- Former faculty at New York University
- Artist residencies include Summer Labs at National Sawdust, the Brush Creek Foundation the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts
- Commissioned by ensemble mise-en, Washington Square Contemporary Society, loadbang ensemble, Equilibrium Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, and Either/Or Ensemble
- Festivals and conferences include the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States conference, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the New Music Miami ISCM Festival, and the mise-en 2014 Music Festival
- Presented the paper "Intercultural Listening in Elliott Sharpe’s 'THEN GO,' for P’ansori and 16 Intonarumori" at Society for Ethnomusicology Conference
- Jane Geuting Camp Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
- Patsy Lu Award, the International Alliance for Women in Music
- Residency Fellowship, Atlantic Center for the Arts
- Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship, New York University
- Ph.D., New York University
- M.M., New England Conservatory
- B.M., Ewha Womans University