He won an Obie Award in 2004 for his score to Dan Hurlin's puppet theatre work Hiroshima Maiden.
His music for dance and theater can be heard in the repertories of Liz Lerman, David Dorfman, Jennifer Muller, Brian Selznick, and Yin Mei, among others.
From the time I first met him in 1977, I was moved by the bell-like clarity of his musical understanding and the beauty and honesty of his singing and playing.Een's band, Big Joe, includes the film composer Carter Burwell, and his long association with Meredith Monk, including his performance in the 1991 premier of Monk's Atlas,[2] culminated in the creation of their hour-long music/theater duet, Facing North (1992).
He has performed his music throughout the world, including Buddhist caves in India, a theater above the arctic circle in Norway, a Shinto shrine in Japan, as well as Lincoln Center and the Knitting Factory in New York City.
He performed his opera The Escape Artist at the 2008 World Festival of Sacred Music in Los Angeles with the International Mystical All-Star Band.