Press — Jia Yi Lee

Interviews & Features:

Feature of emanate in The Straits Times, 17 February 2022:

“Jia Yi Lee was assigned to write for cello, clarinet, flute, percussion, piano, and violin, and traded a few emails with the group to better understand how to format her percussion score. “I am interested in sounds that are not commonly found in regular instruments, unconventional playing techniques,” she says, adding that her sift includes bowed Styrofoam block. She’s aiming to create the effect of digital filters in electronic music production, processes that only allow certain frequency ranges to pass through, with acoustic instruments.

“I was exploring a lot of sounds, including how to get as close to white noise from the instruments,” Lee continues. “And in the middle part of the piece, I did something that I’ve never really done in my work before, which is calculate mathematically certain harmonies, because I know that this ensemble is able to play microtones. I have heard from my teachers and other people who have worked with Talea that they are really amazing musicians, so I’m excited to hear how it turns out when they come down here—I mean, having your piece performed by a high-caliber ensemble is just a dream that many of us have.””

Feature of Impetus in The Daffodil Perspective:

Interview with You Play a What? Podcast Episode 25:

“Fellow coffee lover Lee Jia Yi, is my guest for this episode of YPAW. Currently a student at the Peabody Conservatory and based in the USA, spending her first semester break abroad with the short days and cold weather that is associated with winter. Join us on this episode as Jia Yi paints us a image of Baltimore, she speaks about her compositional process, her thoughts on appealing to the mass media and what is she truly passionate about as an artist.”

Interview with Composers Society of Singapore: Composer of the Month (April 2020):

“The Composers Society of Singapore (CSS) kickstarts 2020 with a new monthly series for our Musings section called Composer of the Month!
The fourth composer to be featured is LEE Jia Yi, a Singaporean composer currently doing her Master’s degree in composition at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, USA!”

Feature of Bloom in SSO Bravissimo! Magazine, Nov-Dec 2018:

“The concerts will open with young Singaporean composer Lee Jia Yi’s Bloom, commissioned by the SNYO. Jia Yi is studying composition at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. An SNYO member from 2014 to 2016, she also plays the trumpet.”

Feature of Bloom in Lianhe Zaobao, 27 November 2018:

Reviews:

Review of Bloom by RTHK Radio 4's "Morning Call", 27 December 2018:

30:00: “Very interesting, a lot of new ideas, some atonal and sectional passages but with structure… she has her own ideas in it.”