Lives in New York, NY
Born 1975, Daejeon, South Korea
Musician, Composer
About eleven years ago I realized that there was something beyond the boundaries of musical vocabulary that existed throughout my musical education. It was something that I never learned, was never exposed to nor even considered as a part of music. However when I was accidentally pushed into using it, it had so much emotional resonance and honesty and most of all, it made me feel finally connected to music and my cello after more than twenty years of playing and composing. I even admitted that I loved music after all.
It was noise.
2000 M.M., New England Conservatory of Music
1998 B.M., Berklee College of Music
2009 Check for Monsters with Steve Beresford and Peter Evans (Emanem, CD)
2008 I saw the Ghost of an Unknown Soul and it Said (Ecstatic Peace!, LP)
2007 There, Then That Corner..., premiered at Roulette, New York, NY
2007 Untitled (White Night), premiered at The Kitchen, New York, NY
2005 Nihm (Tzadik, CD)
2007 New York State Council on the Arts, Composer Commissions Grant
2007 Meet the Composer MetLife Creative Connections Grant
| Year Awarded | 2010 |
| Category | Music/Sound |
Okkyung Lee, photo by Andrew Lampert
Okkung Lee, photo by Okkung Lee
