Jee Won Kim is a composer based in the United States and South Korea. Her music explores the relationship between time, space, and perception and is strongly inspired by fine art and literature. One of her biggest curiosities is “How people play, listen to, and perceive music?” She deeply studies how she, as a composer, can interact with the world through music and how she can deliver her ideas to the audience – even to the one who cannot hear them. And finally reaches to a conclusion “What if I write music that can be heard without hearing, seen without seeing?” 

Her music has been performed by ensembles and artists including andPlay, Festino Chamber Choir, International Contemporary Ensemble, Yarn/Wire (Sae Hashimoto), Unheard-of Ensemble, Studio Dan, Martin Schmeding, John Popham, Matti Pulkki, Ben Roidl-Ward, Alberto Menjón, Clara Cho, and Jixue Yang. She recently received a special prize in the 5th Ise-Shima International Composition Competition and was a finalist for the 2021 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. Her electronic music work was featured in ICMC 2024 and SEAMUS National Conference 2021. 

She is a co-founder and co-director of ENAE, a collective of Korean women composers, and Overtuned Fest, a cross-genre group bridging contemporary classical and experimental rock. 

Jee Won holds a BM from Chung-Ang University and an MM in Composition from the Manhattan School of Music. She is currently a Doctor of Music candidate in Composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Her principal teachers include Aaron Travers, David Dzubay, Reiko Füting, Insun-Cho, and Eunsil Kwon.