Yuniya edi kwon

yuniya edi kwon (stylized in lower-case; born 1989), is an American violinist and composer. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. Biography kwon was born and raised in Minneapolis, to Korean immigrant parents. She began studying the violin at the age of ten. She graduated from University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music as a jazz studies student. In 2021, she performed the piece Seep as part of a Bang on a Can event; David Wright said that “whistling, vocalizing, and folk-inflected violin effects evoked woodland spirits in” the piece. She was featured in The Washington Posts “22 for ‘22” series, with nominator Wang Lu saying that Kwon’s works have a “naturally musical” quality and “don’t make me feel that they are too much ‘carved’”. In a May 2023 review of her piece Earth Iridescence/Sorrow Churn, performed by Sun Han Guild, Vanessa Ague called her voice “a moment of catharsis”. kwon won a 2023 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award in Music/Sound. She was a 2023-2025 Princeton University Arts Fellow. She performed violin at the 2024 Monheim Triennale. She performed as violinist on Stephan Crump’s 2024 album Slow Water; Thomas Conrad of Stereophile said