Grace Ann Lee
The music of composer Grace Ann Lee (b.1996) is based on everyday sounds, imageries, and experiences like raindrops, refracting light, and traffic jams, recreated into dynamic and emotive soundscapes. Her recent collaborators include the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Buffalo Chamber Players, Front Porch, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, among others. She holds commissions from New World Symphony, Sound Mind, United States Air Force Heritage of America Band, and Michael Karsher’s Young New Yorkers’ Chorus. Winner of the 2023 ASCAP Morton Gould Award, Lee has been a composition fellow at the 2024 Tanglewood Music Center and was previously a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and Copland House’s CULTIVATE program. A graduate of Indiana University and Rice University, she is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Michigan.
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