YONGBOM
LEE
composer
BIOGRAPHY
Yongbom Lee is a Leipzig-based Korean composer and interdisciplinary artist. Distorted lyricism and scenic elements with visionary soundscape are characteristic of Lee’s work. His artistic journey unfolds at the intersection of music, neuroscience, and visual art, where he explores the synthesis of these disciplines to create transformative and immersive experiences. His compositions include from instrumental concert music to electronic, film and theatre music. Blending analogue with digital, signal with noise, traditional with experimental, his passion is a constant exploration of musical styles, reflecting his culturally varied experiences.
He has received commissions from Ensemble Modern, ORF Austria 1, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Austria, Ensemble TIMF, Pyramidale Berlin among others. His music has been performed or recorded by Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, the Ensemble of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble reconsil, International Ensemble Modern Academy, Broken Frames Syndicate and Éric-Maria Couturier from Ensemble intercontemporain.
Yongbom Lee has received numerous prizes and grants such as, Ö1 Talentebörse Composition Award 2016, Promotion Award of the City of Vienna for the Music 2018, 1st composition prize at the VII. International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna, State Scholarship for Composition from the Federal Chancellery of Austria, Working Scholarship for Composition from Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Composition Scholarship from the Federal Republic of Germany with the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, GVL Scholarship Program in Germany. In 2022, he was selected for his portrait CD by Edition Zeitgenössische Musik (EZM), which will be released by WERGO. ORF Ö1 (Austria) and Rai Südtirol (Italy) sent portrait radio broadcast about him and his works.
He graduated in composition at the Yonsei University in Seoul (BMus) and in 2016 with distinction at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Mag. art.). He studied composition with Michael Jarrell, Johannes Maria Staud, Iris Ter-Schiphorst and Cheong-mook Kim, music theory with Gesine Schröder. He was stipendiary composer at the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) 2017/18 in Frankfurt and fellow artist at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute 2022 in Scotland, UK.
His works are published by viennese publisher Doblinger and Universal Edition. He is composer and founding member of neuro-music collective aiar in Leipzig. Since 2018 Yongbom Lee has been a lecturer at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig.
| Prizes, awards and scholarships
2024 Künstlerförderung der Stadt Leipzig
2024 Kompositions-Stipendium Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
2023 Residenzförderung in StudioNAXOS Frankfurt am Main / Fonds Darstellende Künste
2023 DMR Stipendienprogramm / NEUSTART KULTUR
2022 Auswahl für eine Portrait-CD im Rahmen der Edition des Deutschen Musikrates
in Zusammenarbeit mit dem deutschen Label WERGO
2022 Fellow Artist Scholarship / Diverse Intelligences Summer Institut, Schottland
2022 DMR Stipendienprogramm / NEUSTART KULTUR
2022 gvl-Stipendienprogramm / Verwertungsgesellschaft für Künstler und Labels
2020 Research Scholarship / Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Auftragskomponist bei der Botschaft der Republik Korea in Österreich
2018 Stipendiat bei der Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie
2018 Staatsstipendium für Komposition / Bundeskanzleramt Österreich
2018 Förderpreis der Stadt Wien in der Sparte Musik
2017 Arbeitsstipendium für Komposition / Bundeskanzleramt Österreich
2016 Ö1 Talentebörse Kompositionspreis
2016 1. Kompositionspreis beim VII. Internationalen Joseph Haydn Kammermusikwettbewerb in Wien
| 수상 및 선정
2024 라이프치히 시 예술가 지원 작곡가 선정
2024 파리 국제예술공동체 작곡가 레지던시
2023 프랑크푸르트 StudioNAXOS 작곡가 레지던시 / 독일 공연예술기금(Fonds Darstellende Künste)
2023 독일음악협회 장학 프로그램 / NEUSTART KULTUR
2022 독일음악협회 초상 음반(Edition) 시리즈 작곡가 선정 (WERGO Label)
2022 다원 지능 여름 학회(Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, 스코틀랜드) 아티스트 펠로우
2022 독일음악협회 장학 프로그램 / NEUSTART KULTUR
2022 GVL(독일 예술가 및 레이블 저작권 관리 협회) 장학 프로그램
2020 캐나다예술위원회(Canada Council for the Arts) 리서치 장학금
2019 주오스트리아 대한민국 대사관 위촉 작곡가
2018 국제 앙상블 모데른 아카데미(Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie) 작곡가
2018 오스트리아 연방총리실 작곡 부문 국가장학금 수혜
2018 오스트리아 비엔나 시 음악 부문 예술진흥상
2017 오스트리아 연방총리실 작곡 부문 장학금 수혜
2016 오스트리아 국영방송 Ö1 작곡상 수상
2016 제7회 국제 요제프 하이든 실내악 작곡 콩쿠르(비엔나) 1등 수상