Gayoung Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1990. After completing her Bachelor's degree at Hanyang University in South Korea, she continued her double bass studies with Professor Nabil Shehata and Wies de Boevé at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich in 2015. She graduated with top marks in 2018.

She has already won several awards, most recently second prize at the Basseurope Solo Competition in Prague in 2016. In the 2016/2017 season Gayoung Lee was an academist for double bass at the Konzerthaus Berlin. She has been a member of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn since September 2018.