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DONGRYUL LEE


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COMPOSER, 작곡가 이동렬

I am a composer who seeks to write music that is both bodily and spiritual, intuitive and structured.
I seek to reconcile and sublimate these tensions not through stylistic eclecticism, but through clarity of expression and depth of process.


"Alluring, sparkling, thoughtful, and carefully crafted"
“깊은 생각과 장인 정신으로 빚어진, 매혹적이며 반짝이는 음악”
– Augusta Read Thomas 

"Positively apocalyptic"
“압도적으로 묵시론적인”

– Chicago Classical Review




UPCOMING

Mu-ak: Soul Unbinding, Ensemble .thrum
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, September 20, 2026

New work for viola and accordion, Jing Chen and Nepomuk Golding, Essen, Germany, winter 2026–27

Violin concerto for Miranda Cuckson and the Talea Ensemble, New York, March 2028
Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, 2026


SELECTED WORKS


Four Excerpts from Missa Laudato Si’ (2023–25)
Commissioned by The EcoVoice Project, World premiere, Loyola University Chicago, March 2025

TIMESTORY, BOOK I: An AstroPastoral for 13 soloists
The Grossman Ensemble, The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, December 2021, Commissioned by the Center for Contemporary Composition at the University of Chicago


A finite island in the infinite ocean for solo violin, Miranda Cuckson
2021 Fromm Players at Harvard Co-curated by Miranda Cuckson and Anne Shreffler

"Gleichsam auf einer geistigen Leiter" from Goethe's Garden (2016-17) for two pianos tuned in a quarter-tone apart
Hanah Choi and Hanqian Zhu, pianos, 18th Annual 21st Century Piano Competition Concert

The Ci(r)cadian Tree (2025)
for violin and piano, Commissioned by Benjamin Sung and David Kalhous for their extension project
[Video] [Details]


Unending Rose (2017-19 rev. 2021, 2025)
A five-movements / 45 minutes microtonal work for string quartet
Supported by the Theodore Presser Foundation, Arts Council Korea, and Kultur Büro Elisabeth Berlin
[Video] [Details]