The music of Korean-American composer Grace Ann Lee 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 Buffalo Chamber Players, Front Porch, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, among others. She holds commissions from the Copland House, Aspen Music Festival, Michael Karsher’s Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, and The Guild of Carillonneurs. Her music has earned honors and awards from the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester, Women in Music, and Young Arts National Foundation in music. A graduate of Indiana University and Rice University where she was a brown fellow, she is currently a Doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan.