Jean Ahn

Jean Ahn (; born 1976) is a composer based in San Francisco, originally from Korea. Her music is inspired by Korean and Asian traditional music and instruments. She composes for a variety of different instruments and ensembles: orchestral works, choral works, solo works, duets, chamber music, and electronic music and computer music. Her accolades include First Prize at the Renée Fisher Competition and the Sejong Korean Music Competition, awards from the Korean National Music Composers Association, the De Lorenzo Prize in Music Composition, and the Isadora Duncan Award for her piece Saltdoll. and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also the Music director of CHIM Studios. Compositions Ahn’s works can be categorized in three groups: # Pieces only using Korean musical elements # Pieces written for Korean instruments, but playing non-Korean traditional styles/music Nil-lili was also chosen to be a required piece for the 2018 piano competition of the New England Piano Teacher’s Association. Ahn combined Nil-lili, Mongeumpo and Ongheya in a collection titled Folksong Revisited for solo piano in 2008. The piece includes five folksongs arranged for voice and piano.