Violist/composer/improvisor Elsie Bae Han seeks out new paths for human connection through music-making. As a performer, Elsie seeks out exploratory spaces for sound investigation and experimentation. Always searching for new and interesting sounds, she prioritizes working with living and upcoming composers. She has played with groups such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Radius Ensemble.Elsie has attended festivals such as Avaloch Farm Music Institute, New Music on the Point, and Bowdoin International Music Festival. Elsie is also the violist and founding member of RE:duo (“Reply”) which has held fellowship positions at Cortona Sessions for New Music and Composers' Conference.

Elsie’s compositional work centers around vulnerability and human relationship with a focus on the consequences that can arise out of the small interpersonal events we share with one another. Exploring uncanny and surrealist aesthetics, her work reflects on the alienness we all experience from the disconnect that exists between our internal and public identities. Her work lives in an interdisciplinary space that creates multimodal creative experiences for audiences to take in sonically and visually. Elsie’s music has been performed at institutions such as Boston Conservatory at Berklee, George Mason University, Valdosta State University, and the University of Georgia Atlanta. Her music was featured on the 2021 opening concert at the Region IV North American Saxophone Alliance Conference. She also had the privilege of working with the Horizon Ensemble to create a multi-movement theatrical cello concerto featuring Olivia Katz. 

She graduated with a M.M. in Contemporary Classical Music Performance under the tutelage of Lila Brown at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and received her undergraduate degrees at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying under Elizabeth Freivogel and Kerrith Livengood.