Hyun Kyung Lee is a Korean-born composer, pianist, educator, and music arranger currently based in New York City. She is the founder and co-director of the Global Peace and Music Foundation (GPAMF), an organization dedicated to creating music that promotes world peace and addresses related social issues. Hyun Kyung’s contributions as a cultural ambassador of Korean contemporary music have been especially significant. From 2018 to 2019, she led a binational concert project in New York and Seoul with violinist Ji In Yang, commemorating the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, supported by the PyeongChang Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and the Korean Cultural Center in New York. This series not only celebrated a historic sporting event but also highlighted the role of music as a form of cultural diplomacy and dialogue.