HAN

Born in South Korea, HAN is a composer, pianist, and intermedia artist whose work emerges from the physical intensity of performance. Drawing from his background as a classical pianist, Lee creates acousmatic, solo, chamber, and multimedia works that explore gesture, embodiment, technology, and the hybridization of acoustic and virtual instruments. His practice treats performance as a compositional site, where sound, movement, notation, and interactive systems are placed in unstable but generative relation.

As a pianist, Han’s interpretations have received awards and recognition ranging from a grand prize awarded by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea to the 2022 Harvard University Fromm Foundation CPI Fellowship. As a composer and intermedia artist, his works have been presented at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and Mise-En Music Festival, and at institutions including SUNY-Stony Brook, the University of Nottingham, Rhode Island School of Design, as well as at Northwestern University where he premiered monolith, a virtual sensor-based musical interface. This interface was then also featured in Newtown Odyssey, a floating opera staged on Newtown Creek in New York City by Kurt Rohde, Dana Spiotta, and Marie Lorenz.

Han has studied piano with Peter Mack, Philip Kawin, Margaret Kampmeier, Anthony de Mare, and Christopher Oldfather, and composition with Reiko Futing, and has received B.Mus and M.Mus for piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music. Han is currently pursuing a PhD in Music and Multimedia Composition at Brown University, where his research examines gesture, interactive systems, and the creative possibilities of acoustic, electroacoustic, and intermedia performance.

IG: @hl.co.kr