Okkyung Lee, a New York-based artist and South Korea native, has
created a body of work blurring genre boundaries through collaborations and
compositions while pushing the limitation of contemporary cello performance
techniques. Her music draws from noise and extended techniques, jazz, Western
classical, and Korean traditional and popular music. Since moving to New York in
2000, She has released more than 20 albums including the latest solo record Ghil
produced by Lasse Marhaug on EditionsMego/Ideologic Organ, Noisy Love Songs (for
George Dyer) on Tzadik. She has performed and recorded with numerous artists from
wide ranges such as Laurie Anderson, David Behrman, Mark Fell, Douglas Gordon, Jenny
Hval, Vijay Iyer, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Lawrence D “Butch” Morris, Marina
Rosenfeld, Jim o’Rourke, Evan Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, C Spencer Yeh and John Zorn
to name just a few. Since 2010, she has been developing a site-specific duo project
with New York based dancer/choreographer Michelle Boulé. They have performed at
Issue Project Room, Mount Tremper Art Center and send+receive fesival in Winnipeg,
Canada and scheduled perform at The Met Breuer Building on March 12th, 2016 as a
part of the inaugural program, curated by pianist/composer Vijay Iyer. She opened
for a legendary experimental rock group Swans in May, 2015 in Northern Europe and
UK. In early 2015, Okkyung presented new compositions commissioned by London
Sinfonietta as a part of Christian Marclay’s exhibit at White Cube Gallery in
London. Okkyung was rewarded with prestigious Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in
2015 and received Foundation For Contemporary Arts Grant in 2010.
