Jean Ahn (Korean: 안진; born 1976) is a composer based in San Francisco, originally from Korea.
[2] Ahn moved to the United States in 2001 to continue her studies and earned her PhD in composition in 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley.
[2] While studying in California, she composed Pesante, a piece for chamber orchestra based on pentatonic scales and Korean rhythmic patterns.
[2] After Nil-lili, Ahn ended up composing two more Korean folksong arrangements for piano: Mongeumpo and Ongheya.
[2][9] Ahn combined Nil-lili, Mongeumpo and Ongheya in a collection titled Folksong Revisited for solo piano in 2008.
[11] In this piece, Ahn provided texts, translations, and International Phonetic Alphabetical pronunciation.