Newton Resident Wins Guggenheim Fellowship For Work As Composer

NEWTON, MA – Newton resident Eun Young Lee has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work as a composer.

She was one of 171 recipients of the 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, which included a diverse group of writers, scholars, artists, and scientists.

Lee is an associate professor of composition at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Her work has been commissioned by various ensembles such as Eighth Blackbird, Antico Moderno, the New York New Music Ensemble, Pacifica Quartet, Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, and more.

Her music has received a number of awards, including first prize at the Tsang-Houei Hsu International Music Composition Competition in Taiwan in 2006; the first regional award in the American Society of University Composers/Society of Composers, Inc (SCI/ASCAP) student composition commission in 2006, 2009, and 2010, respectively, and more.

She has been the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the IPark's Composers + Musicians Collaborative Residency.

“I am honored and grateful to be named one of the 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship recipients,” Lee said in a news release. “My sincere appreciation goes to my family, mentors, friends, and colleagues, who have been supporting me so much. I am excited to work with amazing performers, Adrian Morejon and Momenta Quartet, on a project that is close to my heart.”

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has granted nearly $400 million in fellowships to more than 18,000 individuals since its establishment in 1925, including Nobel laureates, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medalists, poets laureate, members of the national academies, and more.