Jiesun Lim(b. 1960) is a composer and professor at Yonsei University in Korea. She holds degrees from Indiana University at Bloomington(D.M. and M.M.) and Yonsei University(B.M.). She began her career as the recipient of Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize and An Iktae Composition Prize with her doctoral dissertation 『Tone Poem : The Shield of Achilles』. 

Lim's music inspired by humanities, paintings, sculptures, and other visual arts has been performed in music festivals around the world, including ISCM World Music Days(Moldova),  ACL (Israel, Taiwan, Tailand),  Asian Music Festival(Japan),  AIMS Foundation(Spain), International Music Festival of the Czech Republic, Deagu Contemporary Music Festival(Korea) and plenty of New Music Festivals in Korea. Her music has been commissioned and performed by solists, ensembles, and orchestras including Seoul International Music Competition, Hwaum Chamber Orchestra, Korean Military Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Kochi, Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music, Clumusica, and International Conference Mass Dictatorship Project.

Lim has received prizes, grants, and awards including The 23rd Korean National Composer Prize, The 1st Contemporary Korean Orchestra Music Award, The 1st Ahn Eak-tai composition Prize, Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize, Yonsei University Outstanding Teaching Award and Yonsei University Outstanding Achievement Award.

Lim spent the 2002-2003 academic year living in Michigan as a Fulbright Research Scholar composing 『Gayageum Concerto : Clash and Reconciliation in memory of vanished culture』. She was nominated as ’60 Korean New Leaders’ by Kyunghyang Daily Newspaper in 2006. She spend the 2012-2013 academic year in Kyoto as a Visiting Research Scholar at International Research Center for Japanese Studies. She visited Indiana University as a Distinguished Aumni Composer for master class and IU New Music Ensemble Concert performed 『Secret of Golden Color : Klimpt's Confession』in 2013. She composed and premiered orchestral and chamber pieces including 『Icarus』  as a Residence Composer at Hwaum Chamber Orchestra in 2014-2015.

In addition to his creative activities as a composer, she published the book『Contemporary Music in Films』 which was nominated as '2015' Sejong Outstanding Scholarly Book' by Korean Publishing Foundation.


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