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Yuri Lee (age 21) is a Korean-Japanese composer and violinist from New York with the life dream of making people happy with music. She is currently pursuing a music major at Princeton University, where she seeks to connect the hearing and Deaf communities through music and explore what music means to humanity. Awarded by National YoungArts, ASCAP, Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra, the American Prize, National Young Composers Challenge, Tribeca New Music, Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, and NYSSMA, her compositions are packed with imagination and spirit. She is grateful to her Juilliard Preparatory Division composition professors Manuel Sosa and Daniel Felsenfeld, violin professor Lucie Gelinas, and her Luna Lab mentor Reena Esmail.