About this Artist

Yie-Eun Chun is a composer who straddles classical music and opera. She was in spotlight for composing pieces from ordinary subjects such as ‘Toy Symphony’, ‘Tuning Overture’, while she was appointed as a composer-in-residence for the Korean National Symphony Orchestra during 2022-2023. Recently, Yie-Eun was commissioned by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation to compose a piece to be performed in coming years. She is an assistant professor of composition at Kookmin University and she is currently serving as the program director of KNSO Composers’ Atelier program that discovers emerging young composers.

She has received commissions from Korea National Opera to write operas - "The Red Shoes"(2020) and “Brahms”(2021) for two consecutive seasons, which was unprecedented. She has also composed a piece for Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, which premiered with conductor Pascal Rophé. In 2022, she has received commendation from the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea, and was nominated as 1st Young Artist Award in the music section of The National Academy of Arts, Republic of Korea.

Her works have been performed in many venues, including ensembles by Korean National Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Omaha Symphony, Ensemble 2e2m, Breakout Ensemble, Ensemble TIMF (Tongyeong International Music Festival) and Tanglewood New Fromm Players. She was a Margaret Lee Crofts Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in 2013, and her music has garnered awards and honors including the ISCM World Music Days, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and the Georgina Joshi Composition Award.

Yie-Eun has received a Doctoral of Music degree in Composition at Indiana University, a Master of Music degree from Eastman School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from Seoul National University. She was mentored from renowned composers such as David Dzubay, Sven-David Sandström, Claude Baker, Sangjick Jun and David Liptak.