Jay Alan Yim studied music composition at the University of California Santa Barbara, the Royal College of Music, and Harvard, and computer music at Stanford and MIT. He has been a member of the faculty at Northwestern University since 1988, where he is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Composition and Music Technology Program. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council (five times, including three Artists Fellowships for his compositions), Tanglewood, Aspen, Dartington, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, and many other awards, including prizes from the Kennedy Center, New York State Council on the Arts, BMI (three times), ASCAP (twice), New Music Consort, Concorso Alfredo Casella, American Music Center, Blodgett Foundation, New England Computer Arts Association, National Association of Composers USA, and the ISCM. His music has been featured at international festivals (Darmstadt, Ars Musica, Huddersfield, Wien-Modern, Gaudeamus, Almeida, Tanglewood, ISCM World Music Days) and has been performed by artists such as the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, l’Orchestre National de Lyon, Nederlands Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble SurPlus, Nieuw Ensemble, ICE, Dal Niente, the Arditti, JACK, and Spektral Quartets, Gareth Davis, and Frances-Marie Uitti. He is currently working on a commission for the University of Chicago’s Grossman Ensemble.