Eun Young Lee

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.

She won the first-place prize at the 2006 Tsang-Houei Hsu International Music Composition Competition. 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, as well as a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship.

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

She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition in 2023 and another MacDowell Fellowship in 2024;