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Ms. Linto
(2014-09-30)
Ms. Linto is inspired by a famous Taiwan legend called Ms. Linto. This story happened in Tainan. Linto who is a widow and raises three kinds alone, was tricked out of her life saving by a smooth talking handsome man, ACSi ...
Bird-like: five scenes for sinfonietta (or chamber orchestra)
(2015-07-28)
Bird-like is a continuous series of five musical scenes for sinfonietta, or, optionally,
chamber orchestra (single winds, with a small string section). Each scene is inspired by the
motions, behaviors, and physical ...
Escape from the Evil Empire
(2015-07-28)
A dirge for soprano, women’s chorus, and orchestra, ‘Escape from the Evil Empire’ was
created with the idea of composing original music for an epic, major motion picture. The original
text speaks of unwanted souls in a ...
Love and Reform: a chamber operetta
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-23)
"Love and Reform" is a chamber operetta composed from a libretto written by the
composer for female narrator, soprano, tenor, bass, and string quintet. The drama is an
Epicurean satire concerning the imagined afterlife ...
Gumiho: how I tried to give up eating human livers and love someone: an opera in two acts
(2014-08-28)
Gumiho (pronounced goo-mi-ho) is an opera based on an ancient Korean folktale about
a 5,000 year old fox-monster with nine tails whose only source of nourishment is human
livers. The complete opera will be in two acts ...
Time, Unfolding
(2014-09-30)
time, unfolding was written for performance in the 70th Annual Composers
Conference at Wellesley College. It explores the slow unfolding of musical materials
and how it affects our perception of musical time. The idea ...
Lapse of time, for flute, clarine, violin, cello, percussion and piano
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2014)
The inspiration for this piece came from some initial sounds in my mind. The music is combination of these sounds, which sometimes mix well and sometimes collide. In order to realize these sounds, I created three primary ...
Heartbeat for Orchestra
(2016)
Heartbeat is a work for orchestra inspired by our heart, which starts from the day
we are born. My work is concerned with both the abstract representation of the heartbeat
in graph form, and also the emotional expressions ...
Characters in Theatre for Orchestra
(2016)
Beijing Opera is a form of traditional Chinese theater that combines singing, reciting,
performing, acrobatics acting, and instrumental accompanying, along with rich face make-up,
costume and stage setting.
I applied ...
Mock Trial!
(2016)
Mock Trial is a work for wind ensemble. It is inspired by proceedings common to debates and courtroom sessions, where multiple arguments are presented, examined and cross-examined. As a parody, the work pokes fun at the ...
Settings of the Sabbath
(2016)
Settings of the Sabbath is a piece written for large ensemble and SATB choir. The
Sabbath is a sacred time for Jews that starts sundown Friday night and ends at sundown
Saturday night. It is a time for reflection, ...
Clear Sound for Clarinet and Orchestra
(2016)
Clear Sound is the opening movement of a larger three movement concerto for solo clarinet and orchestra being written for clarinetist and conductor Luis Viquez Cordoba. I set out to compose a traditionally structured ...
Music From the Mountain For Di and Orchestra
(2014)
After studying abroad, I have started my research on the comparison between the western and the traditional Chinese orchestras. The idea of forming the traditional Chinese orchestra came from the influence of the "Total ...
Scissors for Orchestra
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
As a composer originally from South Korea who favors Western musical languages
as a medium for composition, it has always been my passion to create works that integrate
my Korean culture in some way. Sometimes I combine ...
Three Portraits of Pipa – for pipa and orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Three Portraits of Pipa is a three movement concerto for pipa, a traditional
Chinese plucked-string instrument that has a history of more than 2000 years in China.
The large variety of timbres of the pipa gives the ...
BOOM!!! ...for Real!
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
BOOM!!! ...for Real! is a fifteen-minute chamber concerto for alto saxophone
(doubling tenor) and mixed chamber ensemble. The paintings and techniques of three
American expressionist painters—Cy Twombly, Franz Kline, ...
The Seventh Sun For Orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
In this work I have created sounds to represent a series of events that signify the
apocalypse in Buddhism, the day that seven suns appear in the sky. It is said to bring about
the end of this old, present world. No ...
Piper in the Woods: An opera in one act
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
“Piper in the Woods” is a one act opera for six principal singers plus SATB chorus,
along with an ensemble of nine instrumentalists. The piece is based on a short story of the
same name by Philip K. Dick. First published ...
The Birth of the Eternal for String Orchestra, Piano and Percussion
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
The Birth of the Eternal is a one-movement composition for string orchestra, piano and
percussion. It is written as a centennial commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and
honors the memory of the victims of the ...
Five Ekmousikés for Solo Piano
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
“Five Ekmousikés” is a multi-movement work composed for solo piano, dedicated to and
to be premiered by my grandmother, Dr. Janet Bass Smith. Each movement in this work is
programmatically tied to a piece of extra-musical ...