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Athena Festival - Chamber Music Awards
 

The ATHENA Festival is pleased to announce the winner of the 2009 Chamber Music Composition Competition. The composer is Hye Kyung Lee and the winning composition is Gust of Embers Trio for violin, clarinet and piano.

 
 
 
 

Hye Kyung Lee HyeKyung Lee (born in Seoul, Korea) graduated from The University of Texas at Austin (DMA in Composition/Performance in Piano), where she studied Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, Russell Pinkston, and Stephen Montague. She also studied with Bernard Rands at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and Ladislav Kubik at the Czech-American Summer Music Institute in Prague. She has received awards from the International Alliance for Women in Music, Harvey Gaul Composition Competition, Composers Guild, Delius Composition Contest, SCI, SEAMUS, ASCAP, and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Competition. Her music can be found on New Ariel Recordings, Capstone Recordings, Mark Custom Recordings, Aurec Recordings, Robin Cox Ensemble Vol. 7, and SEAMUS CD Series Vol. 8. She recorded the CD, Blue-New Music for Saxophone and Piano with saxophonist Todd Yukumoto (released on Equilibrium) in 2001. One of her commissioned works, Dreaming in Colours for Bassoon and Piano was written for the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition for young women bassoonists in 2005. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Music at Denison University, Granville, Ohio.

  Eleanor Brown, Festival Director
Athena Festival
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