The music of composer Grace Ann Lee (b. 1996) is based on everyday sounds, imageries, and experiences like raindrops, refracting light, and traffic jams, recreated into dynamic and emotive soundscapes.

Driven by curiosity, Grace Ann composes music that is based on drama, highlighting appearances of playful rhythm and textural lyricism. A recipient of 2023 ASCAP Morton Gould Award, Lee has recently been selected as a composition fellow for the 2024 at Tanglewood Music Center and has previously been the composition fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and Copland House’s CULTIVATE program. Her recent collaborators include the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Buffalo Chamber Players, Front Porch, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, among others. She holds commissions from Sound Mind, New World Symphony, United States Air Force Heritage of America Band, and Michael Karsher’s Young New Yorkers’ Chorus. A graduate of Indiana University and Rice University, she is currently a Doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan.

Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Grace Ann holds a BM from Indiana University, a MM from Rice University where she was a Brown Fellow, and is currently pursuing a DMA in Composition at the University of Michigan. Her teachers include Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, Erik Santos, Pierre Jalbert, Karim Al-Zand, Shi-Hui Chen, P.Q. Phan, David Dzubay, Aaron Travers, Sven-David Sandström, Claude Baker, Don Freund, and Stephen Shewan.

Grace Ann currently resides in Ann Arbor, MI.