Okkyung Lee

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Okkyung Lee
Okkyung Lee (Vive Le Jazz-Festival Koln 111015) CIMG0820.jpg
Okkyung Lee in concert with Achim Kaufmann and Frank Gratkowski during Vive Le Jazz festival at Institut français Cologne, Germany, 15 October 2011
Background information
Born1975 (age 4950)
Daejeon, South Korea
Genres Experimental music
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, cellist
InstrumentCello
Website okkyunglee.net

Okkyung Lee (born 1975 in Daejeon, South Korea) is a South Korean cellist, improviser, and composer. [1]

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Lee moved to Boston in 1993, where she received a dual bachelor's degree in Contemporary Writing and Production and Film Scoring (Berklee College of Music), and a master's degree in Contemporary Improvisation (New England Conservatory of Music).

In 2000, Lee moved to New York and immersed herself in the city's downtown music scene. Since then, she has collaborated with a wide range of musicians and artists, including Laurie Anderson, Arca, David Behrman, Mark Fell, Douglas Gordon, Jenny Hval, Vijay Iyer, Christian Marclay, Lasse Marhaug, Haroon Mirza, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, Stephen O'Malley, Lawrence D "Butch" Morris, Jim O’Rourke, Evan Parker, Marina Rosenfeld, Wadada Leo Smith, Swans, Cecil Taylor, C. Spencer Yeh and John Zorn.

In 2013, Lee curated the Music Unlimited festival in Wels, Austria, giving it the title "The most beautiful noise on earth". [2] [3]

Lee received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 2010. [4] and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in 2015. [5] [6]

Discography

Solo

Collaborations

In other media

Okkyung Lee's performance at the Austrian 2014 Konfrontationen Festival is featured in Alberte Pagán's film Konfrontationen 2914 (2015). [12]

References

  1. Ratcliff, Ben (7 January 2016). "Review: The Cellist Okkyung Lee Tests Extended Technique’s Boundaries". New York Times . Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  2. Der Standard (7 November 2013). "Lärmige Liebeslieder in Wels" Retrieved 9 January 2016 (in German).
  3. Fellinger, Andreas "Okkyung Lee, the most beautiful noise on earth". Freistil Magazine. (reprinted in English translation by Anna Dobringer on the official website of the Music Unlimited festival). Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  4. Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists, Music/Sound 2010: Okkyung Lee. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  5. Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards. Doris Duke Artist Award, 2015, Jazz: Okkyung Lee. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  6. "29 Mar 2018 – Andy Moor". BIMHUIS Amsterdam. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  7. Pitchfork Review of Ghil by Marc Masters
  8. Wiener Zeitung (15 December 2013). "Lee/Yeh/Marhaug, Wake Up Awesome". Retrieved 9 January 2016 (in German).
  9. "Evan Parker ElectroAcoustic Septet – Seven (Victo, 2015) ****½".
  10. "The Air Around Her, by Ellen Fullman & Okkyung Lee".
  11. "Two Duos".
  12. Konfrontationen 2014