about the composer

Eunseog Lee is an award-winning composer based in Coventry, UK. He read music at King's College London, where he studied composition under Rob Keeley and Joseph Phibbs. He graduated with First Class Honours in 2015 then completed his postgraduate studies in composition with Robert Saxton and Martyn Harry at the University of Oxford in 2017. His music reflects his multidisciplinary approach to the arts, drawing on a number of influences including folk literature, East Asian cultures and his Christian faith.

He was commissioned by London-based art collective Fabelist to write a choral piece for their CONNECT art exhibition in 2013, which was premiered at A-side B-side Gallery. In 2016, his award-winning piece 'Daybreak' was featured in a documentary on national Korean television. His commission 'Triple Arirang' for Asso Oulime was performed as the finale of the 2018 Florence Korea Film Fest and in 2019, his work ‘Sunshower’ was premiered by AsianArt Ensemble in Berlin as part of their International Composers’ Workshop.

In 2020, he completed a new project as part of Sound and Music's New Voices scheme that tells the story of Biblical exile in collaboration with traditional Korean musicians and Western classical contemporary musicians, which was later selected for the George Butterworth Award. In the same year, he was commissioned by the ORA Singers in collaboration with Tate Modern to write a piece in response to a work from their collection. He was most recently commissioned by tutti frutti productions to compose music to accompany performed readings of four children’s books for use in primary schools over lockdown. He is currently working towards a PhD in composition at the University of Bristol.