“…writes music based on everyday sounds, imageries, and experiences like raindrops, refracting light, and traffic jams, recreated into dynamic and emotive soundscapes.”
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Driven by curiosity, Grace Ann Lee (b. 1996) composes music that is based on drama, highlighting appearances of playful rhythm and textural lyricism. A recipient of ASCAP Morton Gould Award, Lee is a 2025 artist fellow at the MacDowell Colony and has previously held fellowships at the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, and Copland House’s CULTIVATE program. In her upcoming season, Lee’s In Crystallized Time will be performed by the American Composers Orchestra in New York City in June 2025, and her newly commissioned work by the Korean National Symphony Orchestra will premiere in South Korea in November 2025. Her recent collaborators include the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Mycelium New Music, musicians from the Louisville Orchestra, Buffalo Chamber Players, Front Porch, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, among others. She holds commissions from the Korean National Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Sound Mind, United States Air Force Heritage of America Band, the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, and Michael Karsher’s Young New Yorkers’ Chorus.
Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Grace Ann holds a BM from Indiana University, a MM from Rice University where she was a Brown Fellow, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan. Her teachers include Michael Daugherty, Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, Erik Santos, Pierre Jalbert, Karim Al-Zand, Shi-Hui Chen, P.Q. Phan, David Dzubay, Aaron Travers, Sven-David Sandström, Claude Baker, Don Freund, and Stephen Shewan.
Grace Ann currently resides in Ann Arbor, MI.