Dr. Su Lee

Dr. Su Lee, originally from Busan, South Korea, is a contemporary music composer and organist whose works are characterized by experimental approaches utilizing microtonality, extended techniques, layered timbre, and overtone structures, transforming cultural and social questions into musical language. Influenced by postwar European political composers during her studies in Germany, her later work consistently reflects an ongoing inquiry into the relationship between music and society. Su Lee holds a B.M. in Composition from Pusan National University, an M.M. in Integrative Composition from Folkwang Universität der Künste, and both an M.M. in Organ Performance and a Ph.D. in Composition from the University at Buffalo, SUNY.

For her, artistic activity is both an aesthetic inquiry and a practice that connects music and society, inseparable from her faith. She understands music ministry as a liturgical act embodying love, justice, and compassion, and looks toward serving creative worship at the Community Church of Vero Beach, where faith and artistic expression meet, trusting in the path she believes God has prepared.