His music is performed across North America, Europe, and Asia. His music has also premiered in venues like Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, La Schola Cantorum in Paris, the DiMenna Center in New York City, La Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico, and the world opening of Microsoft’s flagship store in New York City. Nationally, Yee-Paulson’s music won the Costello Competition, received both a Merit Award and “Emerging Composer” status from the Tribeca New Music Festival, was a finalist in the String Quartet Smackdown Competition, and received multiple finalist positions from the ASCAP Morton Gould Competition. Internationally, he won the Ruth Crawford Seeger Prize, was a finalist in the National Music and Global Culture Society’s Composition Competition, received honorable mention in the Future Blend Competition, and was a semi-finalist in the Tampa Bay Symphony’s Competition. He was a composer-in-residence at the Lake George Music Festival, the Choral Arts Initiative, the Zodiac Music Festival in France, and at DePaul University with Ensemble Del Niente. He has collaborated with the Grammy Award-winning company PARMA Recordings.

Yee-Paulson’s music is played by ensembles like the Boston Opera Collaborative, Rhythm Method Quartet, American Modern Ensemble, Ensemble Del Niente, Choral Arts Initiative, American Modern Orchestra, NEC Contemporary Ensemble, NEC Saxophone Ensemble, IU Concert Orchestra, and the New York Youth Symphony. His music is performed by artists like Grammy-nominated cellist Thomas Mesa and Baltimore Symphony harpist Abigail Kent. Other performances occurred at the Celebrity Series of Boston, European American Musical Alliance, Atlantic Music Festival, Zodiac Music Festival, Mostly Modern Festival, International Horn Symposium, and Charlotte New Music Festival.

Yee-Paulson is currently a Composition Faculty member in NEC’s Expanded Education department. He has a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University and studied with Han Lash, Don Freund, Aaron Travers, and Claude Baker. He also has a Master of Music from NEC, where he studied with Michael Gandolfi and Kati Agócs, and a Bachelor of Music from New York University, where he studied with Justin Dello Joio.