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 In a Fog (2023) for piano trio reflecting on her personal journey with mental illness and acceptance. For the 2024-25 season, her ongoing projects include a new work for the Del Sol String Quartet inspired by her experience of pregnancy and motherhood as well as a solo violin piece for Matt Albert which will explore the act of apology.

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, 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 is also an administrator at the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music (California), working with her favorite people: Gabriela, Florinda, Marco, Stephanie, and Joel. 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 continued her composition studies and 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.