Jinsil Lee, South Korean women composer, is based in New York. Her choral music is actively performed in South Korea. As an activist, many of her music is engaged Korean history and culture. She expresses her thoughts as Korean culture activist through her music.
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Jinsil Lee is a South-Korean woman composer based in New York City. She has actively published over fifty choral peices over the years and one of her church choral serise has sold over 8000 copies over the years. She has received numorous commissions from Korean Civic Choirs over the years. Her two cantatas O! My Fatherland! (2021) and Busan Mack Arirang (2015) for over 100 performers were premiered in 2021 and 2015. One of the most popular choral musicals Once upon a time’ (2013), Fantastic Forest’(2015), The Christmas story of Grandpa Scrooge(2014) were performed by many different city choirs in Korea including Busan, Daegu, Chuncheon, Gangneung, Chungju, Jeonju, Pohang and etc. Her piano concerto for string orchestra The begging (2015) was premiered in Vienna and New Jersey. Her electronic dance piece Wind from nowhere’ (2016) and percussion sextet (2016) were primered in New York and New Jersey.
She is currently an artist in residency of Korean Pacific Philharmonic Orchestra since 2021 and has led New Jersey Leonia Young Chamber Orchestra as a music director and conductor in the past. She received her MA in music composition from Rutgers in USA and BA in music composition from Chongshin University in South-Korea.
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