ABOUT

Sunghee Lee is a haegeum artist who creates new work rooted in Korean traditional music. Through performance, collaboration, and interdisciplinary projects, she explores the expressive possibilities of the haegeum and the ways sound can create shared experiences across different cultural and artistic contexts.

A central concept in Lee’s work is pan, a shared space formed through interaction, presence, and collective participation. This idea shapes her approach to performance, where sound is not simply presented to an audience but created and experienced through relationships among performers, listeners, bodies, and space. Her recent work incorporates voice, gesture, and embodied musical knowledge into her haegeum practice.

Since relocating to the United States, Lee has expanded her work through concerts, interdisciplinary collaborations, university workshops, and community-based projects. She has performed at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage and worked with artists and educational institutions across Georgia and beyond. Her current projects explore how the haegeum can interact with new places, sounds, and communities outside conventional concert settings.

Lee holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Seoul National University, where she specialized in haegeum performance and Korean traditional music. She has served as an Associate Professor at Yeungnam University in South Korea since 2019 and is currently based in Georgia, USA, where she continues her work as a haegeum artist, researcher, and educator.