Kyong Mee Choi, composer, visual artist, painter, organist, and poet, received several prestigious awards and grants, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Robert Helps Prize, Aaron Copland Award, and John Donald Robb Musical Trust Fund Commission. Choi received awards from Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo, Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges, Musica Nova, Society of Electroacoustic Music of Czech Republic, Luigi Russolo International Competition, Destellos Competition, the Contest for the International Contemporary Music Contest "Citta' di Udine, Concurso Internacional de Composicai eletroacoustica in Brazil, and ASCAP/SEAMUS. Choi’s music was published at CIMESP (São Paulo, Brazil), Détonants Voyages (Studio Forum, France), MUSLAB-CERO Records, Ablaze, NOVA, SCI, EMS, ERM, and SEAMUS. Ravello Records published her multimedia opera, THE ETERNAL TAO, supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and her second opera, Pale Courage, received critical acclaim. Aucourant Records published her album, SORI, featuring her eight compositions for solo instrument and electronics. Choi is a Professor of Music Composition and the Program Director of Music Composition and Music and Computing Programs at Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago.