About

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Jungyoon Wie is a composer, educator, and pianist based in San Francisco. Themes of identity, family, and personal story have been the center of her compositional journey. Her most recent works include A Prayer for Peace (2024) for string orchestra exploring different emotional progressions in her journey of immigration and Starlings (2025) for the Kronos String Quartet and string orchestra. For the 2025-26 season, her ongoing projects include a new work for the Del Sol String Quartet inspired by her experience of pregnancy and motherhood and a tuba concerto for Brendan Ige.

Wie has had the privilege of working with many artists and organizations including A Far Cry, New Century Chamber Orchestra, the Korean National Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, the Wooster Symphony Orchestra, Next Festival of Emerging Artists, Summermusik, CityMusic Cleveland, American Composers Forum, Wildflower Composers, Magnus Lindberg and Avanti! Chamber Ensemble (Finland), PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Spring Wind Quintet, and Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. In addition, she has collaborated with musical artist Ólafur Arnalds (Iceland) as an orchestral arranger.

She currently calls San Francisco her home with Kevin (husband), Mina (daughter), and Bingsoo (dog).

P.S. Wie came to the United States in 2006 at 16 years old to attend St. Andrew’s Sewanee High School in Tennessee. She met her first composition teacher James Carlson during the last year of her high school and started making musical sketches. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory and Composition under the guidance of Jack Gallagher at the College of Wooster, OH. In 2020, she received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition at the University of Michigan. Her mentors include Gabriela Lena Frank, Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, Erik Santos, Bright Sheng, and Derek Bermel.