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Lee is the recipient of a second ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, this time for his orchestral piece Vicious Circles. The award encourages developing music creators during the earliest stages of their careers. Lee will be presented with the award at a ceremony in New York City. Lee previously won this award for his piece Bottom Heavy in 2015.

WireTap New Music, an ensemble run by Lee and cellist Emily Austin Smith, will perform Bottom Heavy alongside pieces by Brendon Randall-Myers, Nina Young, Cameron Britt, and Kati Agócs at The Shed in Durham, NC.

Lee discusses his experiences with Symphony In C as they gave the world premiere performance of his piece Vicious Circles.

In a review of Symphony In C’s world premiere performance of Vicious Circles, David Patrick Stearns describes Lee’s music as “colorful and engaging.” He goes on to say “the multi-episode piece chases and builds on itself with the minimalist intricacy of Michael Torke, but with dramatically horrific interruptions of Christopher Rouse.”

As the winner of Symphony In C’s 2016-17 Young Composers’ Competition, Lee’s orchestral work Vicious Circles was premiered by Symphony In C on January 28 at the Rutgers-Camden Center for the Performing Arts, with Stilian Kirov Conducting.

In a preview of the upcoming Symphony in C concert, Lee spoke with Gary Wien about Vicious Circles and winning Symphony in C’s 2016-17 Young Composer’s Competition.

Vicious Circles will be performed by Symphony in C on January 28, 2017 alongside works by Bernstein and Dvorak at the Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts in Camden, NJ.

Lee will be attending the summer music festival where he will study with esteemed composers Chris Theofanidis and Stephen Hartke. The festival has commissioned Lee to write a string quartet to be premiered at the festival, alongside a short orchestral work to be read by the Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra and a fanfare for brass quintet.

Lee was featured in the article as a teacher in the Junior Bach program. The program involves giving composition lessons to middle-school students from St. Ignatius Loyola Academy in midtown Baltimore. The students work on a writing a piece with Peabody composers for a semester, which is then performed by instrumentalists from the conservatory. See the link for the full article.

Chinese virtuoso guitarist Meng Su gave a recital as part of San Francisco Performances’ PIVOT series, including works by Lee, Bach, John Williams, and Sergio Assad. The concert was streamed on Facebook Live.