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]
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