Hyun Kyung Lee is a composer, pianist, educator, and music arranger originally from Seoul, Korea, and now living in New York City. She founded and is co-director of the Global Peace and Music Foundation (GPAMF), whose mission is to create music awakening world peace and addressing related issues; many of her works have been performed through the foundation. From 2018-2019, she led a concert to commemorate the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in New York and Seoul (supported by the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and the Korean Cultural Center New York).