Okkyung Lee

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Okkyung Lee, mœrs festival 2006
Korean spelling
Hangeul 이옥경
Revised
Romanization 		I ok-gyeong
McCune-
Reischauer 		Yi Okkyŏng

Okkyung Lee (* 1975 in Daejeon / South Korea ) is a South Korean cellist (interpreter, improviser) and composer .

Life and effect

Lee, who grew up in Daejeon, Korea, moved to Boston in 1993, where she studied and earned degrees in both composition and film music ( Berklee College of Music ) and improvisation ( New England Conservatory ). Since moving to New York City in 2000, she has played and recorded with a wide variety of artists. These include Derek Bailey , Carla Bozulich, Nels Cline , Anthony Coleman , Chris Corsano , Sylvie Courvoisier , Mark Dresser , Fred Frith , Carolos Giffoni, Shelley Hirsch , Lindha Kallerdahl, Andrew Lampert, Paul Lytton , Miya Masaoka, Raz Mesinai, Min Xiao- fen, Thurston Moore , Butch Morris , Larry Ochs , Jim O'Rourke , Beth Orton, Evan Parker , Zeena Parkins , Marina Rosenfeld, Wadada Leo Smith , C. Spencer Yeh and John Zorn .

Lee developed her own musical language, building on contemporary cell techniques and profound experience in improvisation and composition. Using her solid classical training as a springboard, she merges jazz, sounds, traditional Korean music and noises and creates a unique musical synthesis.

Lee often appears as a solo performer and with her own ensembles. She also works frequently with the groups of pianist / composer Vijay Iyer and poet and hip-hopper Mike Ladd as well as in a duo with turntable / video artist Christian Marclay .

She is at important festivals both in North America (Victoriaville, Portland, San Francisco, Whitney Biennial 2006 “Day for Night” in New York) and in Europe ( mœrs festival , Taktlos Festival Zurich / Basel, Venice Biennale , Kontracom Festival in Salzburg) occurred.

Okkyung Lee at the Vive Le Jazz Festival in concert with Achim Kaufmann and Frank Gratkowski in the Institut français Cologne 2011

Discographic notes

  • Nihm ( Tzadik , 2005)
  • I Saw The Ghost of an Unknown Soul and It Said… (Ecstatic Peace, 2008)
  • Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik, 2010)
  • Okkyung Lee & Phil Minton Anicca (Dancing Wayang, 2011)
  • Parker / Lee / Evans The Bleeding Edge (Psi, 2011)
  • Ghil (Ideologic Organ / Editions Mego, 2013)
  • Frank Gratkowski, Achim Kaufmann, Wilbert de Joode , Okkyung Lee, Richard Barrett , Tony Buck SKEIN ( leo Records 2014)
  • Dahl-Tah-Ghi (Pica Disc, 2018)
  • Ellen Fullman & Okkyung Lee: The Air Around Her (2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pitchfork meeting , July 22, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Okkyung
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 이옥경 (Hangeul); I, Ok-gyeong (Revised Romanization); Yi, Okkyŏng (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean cellist (interpreter, improviser) and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Daejeon