Okkyung Lee

Okkyung Lee (born 1975 in Daejeon, South Korea) is a South Korean cellist, improviser, and composer.
Lee moved to Boston in 1993, where she received a dual bachelor's degree in Contemporary Writing and Production and Film Scoring (Berklee College of Music), and a master's degree in Contemporary Improvisation (New England Conservatory of Music).
In 2000, Lee moved to New York and immersed herself in the city’s downtown music scene. Since then, she has collaborated with a wide range of musicians and artists, including Laurie Anderson, David Behrman, Mark Fell [2], Douglas Gordon, Jenny Hval, Vijay Iyer, Christian Marclay, Lasse Marhaug, Haroon Mirza, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, Lawrence D “Butch” Morris, Jim O’Rourke, Evan Parker, Marina Rosenfeld, Wadada Leo Smith, Swans, Cecil Taylor, C. Spencer Yeh and John Zorn.
In 2013, Lee curated the Music Unlimited festival in Wels, Austria, giving it the title "The most beautiful noise on earth".
Lee received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 2010. and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in 2015

Solo

• Nihm (Tzadik, 2005)
• I Saw The Ghost Of An Unknown Soul And It Said… (Ecstatic Peace, 2008)
• Noisy Love Songs (For George Dyer) (Tzadik, 2010)
• Ghil (Ideologic Organ/Editions Mego, 2013)

Collaborations

• "Rubbings", with Christian Marclay on From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 7 (Opax, 2005; A Silent Place, 2006). Split LP with My Cat is an Alien.
• Still Life With Commentator, by Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd (Savoy Jazz, 2007)
• Check for Monsters, with Steve Beresford and Peter Evans (Emanem, 2009)
• Spiritual Dimensions, by Wadada Leo Smith (Cuneiform Records, 2009)
• Femina, by John Zorn (Tzadik, 2009)
• Dicteé/Liber Novus, by John Zorn (Tzadik, 2010)
• The Bleeding Edge, with Peter Evans and Evan Parker (psi, 2011)
• Anicca, with Phil Minton (Dancing Wayang, 2011)
• Cold / Burn, with Anla Courtis, C. Spencer Yeh and Jon Wesseltoft (Feeding Tube Records, 2012)
• Almost Even Further" with 6ix (Leo Records, 2012)
• White Cables, Black Wires, with John Edwards (Fataka, 2013)
• Look Right, with Nina de Heney and Lisa Ullen (LJ Records, 2013)
• Holding It Down" Veterans' Dreams Project, by Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd (Pi Recordings, 2013)
• Wake Up Awesome, with Lasse Marhaug and C. Spencer Yeh (Software, 2013)
• Piper, with Jon Wesseltoft (Holidays Records, 2014)
• Skein, with Richard Barrett, Tony Buck, Frank Gratkowski, Wilbert de Joode, Achim Kaufmann (Leo Records, 2014)
• Seven, by Evan Parker Electroacoustic Septet (Victo, 2015)
• Live at Stone, with Chris Corsano and Bill Nace (Open Mouth, 2015)
• "A Pattern For Becoming", by Mark Fell (The Tapeworm, 2015)
• "Live at Cafe Oto", with Bill Orcutt (Otoroku, 2016)

• Pitchfork Review of Ghil by Marc Masters
• Wiener Zeitung (15 December 2013). "Lee/Yeh/Marhaug, Wake Up Awesome". Retrieved 9 January 2016 (German).
• [1]