WONJI LEE

Based in San Francisco, California, USA

A serene and subtle journey from the mundane to the ideal

A composer of visual media, Wonji Lee creates music that evokes specific imagery, emotions, and even the déjà vu of an entirely different world in her listeners. Based in San Francisco, she is involved in music production and sound design for diverse genres, including animations, VR documentaries, comedy films, and horror movies. Lee crafts a unique soundscape all her own by enriching the ambient music genre with orchestral, acoustic, and electronic sounds.

She specialized in classical piano in her arts middle school through college, which allowed her to gain a deep understanding of a wide repertoire of chamber and orchestral music. Later, she studied Music Production & Sound Design for Visual Media at the Academy of Art University (AAU) in San Francisco, expanding her musical horizons into music writing, MIDI, and arrangement. In 2019, Haenyeo, a VR documentary whose sound design she produced, was shown at the TFI Network during the world-renowned Tribeca Film Festival. In 2020, her work was selected as the Silver Award winner at the Independent Shorts Awards and also as the Best Music Score Award winner at the Top Shorts Film Festival.

Awards

Best Original Score, Falcon International Film Festival, 2022

Winner, Top Shorts Film Festival, 2020

Silver Winner, Independent Shorts Awards, 2020

Winner, NXT UP Festival, 2019

'Haenyeo' screened at Tribeca Film Institute Network, 2019

'Recycled Moment’ screened at SF Dance Film Festival, 2017