Bora Yoon
Assistant Professor of Music
Music Department
Division of the Arts
Bora Yoon is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Reed College. A Korean-American composer, vocalist, and sound artist, Bora’s musical practice focuses on the intersection of classical forms of music and hybrid expressions of time-based new music and evolving technologies. Classically trained in voice, violin, and piano — her research and teaching interests include Music Composition, Electroacoustic Music, Songwriting, Sound Art, Embodied Performance, Music for Dance, Film, and Theater, Spatial Audio, and Immersive Performance with New Media. Her music has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, WIRE magazine, Apple TV+’s Pachinko, NPR, TED, and the National Endowment for the Arts podcast. She joins the Reed faculty in 2023.