Events

Upcoming

April 26, 2024 
Guest Composer Lecture
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, Indiana

April 27, 2024 
Fragile Remembrance Recording Session
Patrick Yim, violin
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN

Recent

March 2, 2024, 3pm 
Neon Sounds, for amplified string quartet and percussion
Shouson Theatre
Hong Kong Arts Centre
Hong Kong
Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and Toolbox Percussion

March 1, 2024, 8pm 
Neon Sounds, for amplified string quartet and percussion (Premiere)
Shouson Theatre
Hong Kong Arts Centre
Hong Kong
Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and Toolbox Percussion

December 28, 2023 
Fragile Remembrance, for solo violin
Zhejiang Conservatory
Hangzhou, China
Patrick Yim, violin

December 7, 2023, 6:30pm 
Fragile Remembrance, for solo violin
LaBar Performance Hall
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN
Patrick Yim, violin

November 13, 2023, 7:30pm 
Fragile Remembrance, for solo violin
TEW Recital Hall
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
Patrick Yim, violin

November 12, 2023, 3pm 
Fragile Remembrance, for solo violin (Premiere)
Nelson Music Room
Duke University
Durham, NC
Patrick Yim, violin

October 12, 2023 
Guest Composer Lecture
University of Tasmania
Hobart, Australia

October 9, 2023 
Guest Composer Lecture and Workshop
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia

July 12-14, 2023 
International Composers Workshop
Panel Discussion with Louis Siu and TJS Dean Katherine Chu
“Creativity and Cultural Exchange”
Toolbox Percussion International Creative Academy
Tianjin Juilliard School
Tianjin, China

April 12, 2023 
Guest Composer Lecture
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

April 11, 2023 
Guest Composer Lecture
Illinois State University
Normal, IL

March 17, 2023 
Passions, for solo violin
CAMPGround23
The Factory
St. Petersburg, FL
Sini Virtanen, violin

September 2020 – February 2023 
“Patterns of Influence: Steven Stucky as Orchestrator”
General Research Fund (GRF) Grant of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council
2-year analytical project on the orchestral work of Steven Stucky, including archival work at the Library of Congress.

September 12, 2022, 5pm & 6:15pm
Incantation, for violin and viola (Premiere of revised version)
Tai Kwun
Hong Kong
Euna Kim, violin
William Lane, viola

August 28, 2022, 4pm 
Passions, for solo violin (Premiere)
Sibelius Music Institute
Hämeenlinna, Finland
Sini Virtanen, violin

June 9, 2022, 1pm 
Composer Presentation: “Translating Words to Music”
Toolbox Percussion International Creative Academy
Hong Kong

June 3, 2022 
immaus, for solo violin
Sibelius Music Institute
Hämeenlinna, Finland
Sini Virtanen, violin

April 11, 2022 
Guest Composer Lecture
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL

April 8, 2022 
Masterclass and Guest Composer Lecture
SUNY Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

April 7, 2022 
Guest Composer Lecture
Eastman School of Music
Rochester, NY

March 21, 2022 
Kinetic Attractions, for percussion quartet (Premiere of revised version, postponed to 2022-23 season, date TBA))
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble
Aiyun Huang, director

Spring 2022
University of Toronto Residency (postponed to 2022-23 season, date TBA)
Visiting Scholar activities to include a masterclass and private lessons with composition students and the premiere of a new work for violin and vibraphone by Mark Fewer and Aiyun Huang.

December 12, 2021 (postponed, date TBA)
immaus, for solo violin
Sibelius Music Institute
Hämeenlinna, Finland
Sini Virtanen, violin

October 28, 2021 
Parallel Lives, for flute, clarinet, trombone, violin, cello, percussion, and piano (Premiere)
Mise-en Place
Brooklyn, NYC
ensemble mise-en
Moon Young Ha, conductor

October 4, 2021 
Guest Composer Lecture
Kent State University
Kent, OH

June 20, 2021, 3pm
Inner Truth, for piano
Swan City Piano Festival
First Presbyterian Church of Lakeland
Lakeland, FL
Eunmi Ko, piano

April 1, 2021 
Sandburg Songs 
Albany Records portrait CD release
Tony Arnold, soprano
Zohn Collective
Tim Weiss, conductor

March 6, 2021, 7pm
immaus, for solo violin
2021 USF New Music Festival and Symposium
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
Sini Virtanen, violin

January 29, 2021, 11am
Guest Composer Presentation
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

January 8, 2021 
Panelist
Toolbox Percussion International Creative Academy
Hong Kong City Hall

June 23-28, 2020 (postponed to 2020-21 season, date TBA)
New Work for ensemble mise-en
mise-en Music Festival
New York, NY

April 3-4, 2020 (canceled)
Kinetic Attractions, for percussion quartet (Premiere of revised version)
2020 USF New Music Festival and Symposium
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
McCormick Percussion Group
Robert McCormick, director

March 29, 2020 12pm (canceled)
Inner Truth, for piano
Concert & Multi-sensory Art Making Inspired by Artist Haegue Yang
The Bass Museum of Art
Miami Beach, FL
Eunmi Ko, piano

October 29 – November 5, 2019   
Bernard Rands Project
Series of interviews with Bernard Rands in conjunction with the premiere of Dream with the CSO.
Chicago, IL

October 22, 2019 4:30pm  
Inner Truth, for piano
Edge Recital Hall
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Eunmi Ko, piano

October 21, 2019 7:30pm  
Inner Truth, for piano
Dohnanyi Recital Hall
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Eunmi Ko, piano

September 30, 2019 12pm  
Resonant Memories, for carillon
59th Annual University of Michigan Organ Conference: Faculty Recital
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Tiffany Ng, carillon

September 15, 2019 4pm  
Inner Truth, for piano
Faculty Recital
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
Eunmi Ko, piano

August 17, 2019 3pm  
Inner Truth, for piano
San Francisco International Piano Festival
Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts
Berkeley, CA
Eunmi Ko, piano

June 29, 2019 5:45pm 
Inner Truth, for piano
World Piano Conference
Great Hall of the University of Novi Sad Rectorate
Novi Sad, Serbia
Eunmi Ko, piano

May 30, 2019, 7:30pm 
Unite in Song (Premiere)
First Draughts Reading Session
EMPAC Theatre
Troy, NY
Albany Symphony Orchestra members, David Alan Miller, conductor

May 28 – June 3, 2019 
Albany Symphony Orchestra Workshop and American Music Festival
Premiere of Unite in Song for ASO Musicians and conductor David Alan Miller
EMPAC Theatre
Troy, NY

May 24, 2019, 6pm 
Inner Truth, for piano
Dot The Line Festival
Ewha Womans University
Seoul, South Korea
Eunmi Ko, piano

April 5, 2019, 4pm 
Inner Truth, for piano
The Keyboard in the 21st-Century
AST916, Sing Tao Building, Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong
Linda Yim, piano

April 4-5 2019 
The Keyboard in the 21st-Century: an international conference for composers
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong
Conference organizer and performance of Inner Truth

February 23, 2019, 7:30pm 
Inner Truth, for piano
Faculty Recital
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Daniel Pesca, piano

August 20-26, 2018 
Albany Records Recording Session
Tony Arnold, soprano, with Zohn Collective
Oberlin Conservatory
Oberlin, OH

July 30-August 19, 2018
Copland House Residency
Cortlandt Manor, NY

July 29, 2018 
Resonant Memories, for carillon
Albany City Hall
Albany, NY
Tiffany Ng, carillon

July 28, 2018 
Resonant Memories, for carillon
Norwich University
Northfield, VT
Tiffany Ng, carillon

July 27, 2018 
Resonant Memories, for carillon (Premiere)
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
Tiffany Ng, carillon

July 16, 2018, 7pm 
City Lights, for string quartet (Premiere)
VIPA Festival 
Auditorio del CSM “Joaquin Rodrigo”, Valencia, Spain
Mivos Quartet

July 10-20, 2018 
VIPA Festival
Valencia, Spain
Premiere of City Lights by Mivos Quartet

June 30, 2018, 7:30pm 
Inner Truth, for piano (Premiere)
PianoForte Chicago
Chicago, IL
Daniel Pesca, piano

May 23, 2018, 3pm 
Arts and Letters Ceremonial
Recipient of 2018 Charles Ives Fellowship
American Academy of Arts and Letters
New York, NY

April 6, 2018, 7:30pm 
They Say, for guitar (Premiere)
2018 USF New Music Festival and Symposium
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
Dieter Hennings, guitar

April 5, 2018, 4pm
Guest Composer Lecture
New College of Florida
Sarasota, FL

March 22, 2018, 11am
Guest Composer Lecture
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

June 1, 2017, 8pm
Adjudicator for New Generation 2017
Hong Kong Composers Guild in association with RTHK Radio 4
RTHK Studio One
Hong Kong

May 1, 2017, 1:30pm
Guest Composer Lecture
Taipei National University of the Arts
Taipei, Taiwan

February 22, 2017, 8pm
Sandburg Songs, for soprano and piano (selections)
Fisher-Bennett Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Jamie Jordan, soprano and Steve Beck, piano

February 3, 2017, 1:30pm
Faculty Lecture-Recital
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong
Lecture on my music and performances of Rise and immaus
Gary Ngan, violin and Kawai Chan, piano

December 20, 2016-January 4, 2017
MacDowell Colony Residency
The MacDowell Colony
Peterborough, NH

July 1-14, 2016
Composer Fellow
SoundSCAPE Festival
Maccagno, Italy
Private composition teaching and premiere of complete Sandburg Songs

July 12, 2016, 9pm
Sandburg Songs, for soprano and ensemble (Premiere of complete 5-song cycle)
SoundSCAPE Festival
Maccagno, Italy
Tony Arnold, soprano and soundSCAPE faculty, Tim Weiss, conductor

May 4, 2016, 8pm
Sandburg Songs, for soprano and ensemble
Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin Conservatory
Oberlin, OH
Sage DeAgro-Ruopp, soprano, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Tim Weiss, conductor

January 4-29, 2016
Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts residency
Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts
Saratoga, WY

January 21, 2016
Brush Creek Presents at Encampment K-12 School
Speaking to high school students about my music.
Encampment, WY

September 23, 2015, 12pm
Composer Lecture
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD

July 3-16, 2015
SoundSCAPE Festival
Maccagno, Italy

July 7, 2015, 8:30pm
Sandburg Songs, for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, guitar, percussion, and piano (Premiere)
Tony Arnold and Eastman BroadBandTim Weiss, conductor
SoundSCAPE Festival
Maccagno, Italy

January 28-April 15, 2015
Camargo Foundation Fellowship Residency
Camargo Foundation
Cassis, France

March 11, 2015, 5pm
Composer Lecture
Camargo Foundation
Cassis, France

January 30, 2015, 10am
In Search of Planet X, for clarinet, violin, and piano
Florida State University Festival of New Music
Tallahassee, FL
Debbie Bish, clarinet
Shannon Thomas, violin
Deloise Lima, piano

January 22, 2015, 4pm
“Sound Dialogue: Recent Works for Korean Traditional Instruments”
Composer Lecture
Composition in Asia Symposium and Festival
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

November 15, 2014, 7pm
In Search of Planet X, for clarinet, violin, and piano
NACUSA National Conference
Kopleff Recital Hall, Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA

August 10-15, 2014
Paper Presentation on the role of music in second language acquisition
Collaboration with Jiyoon Lee, University of Georgia
World Congress of the American Association of Applied Linguistics
Brisbane, Austrailia

April 17, 2014, 8pm
Kinetic Attractions, for percussion quartet (Premiere)
Athens International Film Festival
Central Venue
73 Central Avenue
Athens, OH
NOBROW.collective

March 22, 2014
immaus, for solo violin
Rocky Mountain Regional Conference, College Music Society
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Denver, CO
Lina Bahn, violin

March 29, 2014, 2pm
immaus, for solo violin
Great Lakes Regional Conference, College Music Society
University of North Dakota, Fargo
Fargo, CO
Kia-Hui Tan, violin

December 11, 2013, 7:30pm
Celebrations, for 18-string kayagŭm (Premiere)
Commissioned by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Woonmyundang, National Gugak Center
Seoul, South Korea
Jung Gil-seon, kayagŭm

December 5, 2013, 5:30pm
Kinetic Attractions, for percussion (Premiere)
collaboration with artist David Colagiovanni
Exhibit Opening at HERE Art Center
145 Sixth Avenue, Soho, NYC
Clara Warnaar, percussion

November 1, 2013
Paper Presentation on Korean Popular Music
College Music Society National Conference
Cambridge, MA

June 19, 2013-August 18, 2013
Aspen Music Festival

August 16, 2013, 9:00pm
II. Still, from Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Zach Good, clarinet
Alex Bernstein, piano
Scanlan Hall
Aspen, CO

July 14, 2013, 9:00am
Beyond Planet X (excerpts), for orchestra
American Academy of Conducting at Aspen orchestra reading
Harris Concert Hall
Aspen, CO
Yuga Cohler, counductor

July 26, 2013, 8:30pm
Incantation, for violin and viola
Commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival and School
Harris Concert Hall
Aspen, CO
Timothy Steeves, violin
Xander Knecht, viola

March 16, 2013, 3pm
Sound Dialogue Project
“an ensemble dedicated to the interface between traditional and contemporary music”
Premiere concert featuring Korean traditional and contemporary western music
Four Sijo, for oboe, kayagŭm, percussion, and 2 reciters (Premiere)
Wildflowers, for solo oboe
Holy Angels Korean Catholic Church
7000 Old York Road
Philadelphia, PA 19126
Sponsored by American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter

March 15, 2013, 8pm
Sound Dialogue Project
“an ensemble dedicated to the interface between traditional and contemporary music”
Premiere concert featuring Korean traditional and contemporary western music
Four Sijo, for oboe, kayagŭm, percussion, and 2 reciters (Premiere)
Wildflowers, for solo oboe
Rose Recital Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Sponsored by American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter

March 8-9, 2013
“Gangnam Style or Substance? Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Korean Popular Music”
Paper Presentation
8th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute of Education
Hong Kong

January 11, 2013, 8pm
In Search of Planet X, for clarinet, violin, and piano
Bill Kalinkos, clarinet
Yuki Numata, violin
Matt Bengtson, piano
Penn Contemporary Music “Wail of the Voice” concert
Rose Recital Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

June 29, 2012, 10:30am
Wildflowers, for solo piri
Gamin Hyosun Kang, piri
2012 International Gugak Workshop
National Gugak Center
Seoul, South Korea

June 6, 2012, 4pm
In Search of Planet X, for clarinet, violin, and piano
New York New Music Ensemble
June in Buffalo Festival
Baird Recital Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

June 2, 2012, 2pm
Sarangbang, for solo kayagŭm (Premiere)
Najung Jin, kayagŭm
Seoul Art Space (Mullae)
Seoul, South Korea

May 24, 2012, 7:30pm
Wildflowers, for solo piri
Gamin Hyosun Kang, piri
Bukchon Changwoo Theater
Seoul, South Korea

May 13, 2012, 3pm
Noticing, for clarinet and violin
Bill Kalinkos, cl; Yuki Numata, vln. (The Links)
Queens New Music Festival
Secret Theatre, Studio 104
44-02 23rd Street, LIC, Queens 11101