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Plantains in the rain
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-12)
"Plantains in the Rain" is an early masterpiece of Cantonese music (a type of Chinese
traditional instrumental ensemble music). The piece depicts the pattering of rain drops on plantains
in early summer. My composition ...
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 ...
The waters
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-12)
'The Waters' is a piece inspired by nature and the ways water manifests itself in nature.
Water can exist in such varied ways, from a flowing river to destructive hail to delicate
morning dew. These multiple existences ...
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 ...
Naya Jeevan, concerto for double bass and wind ensemble
(2014-07-17)
Naya Jeevan, meaning new life in Hindi, is a twenty-four minute, two-movement
concerto for double bass and wind ensemble. While the two movements vary drastically in
mood, texture, and tone, they both explore intensity ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Songs from behind the curtain, an opera in three acts
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-25)
Songs from Behind the Curtain is the story of Pascal Baur, a damaged composer
in 1980's Hartford, who, as the musical director of the Hartford Opera Company, is
encoding Soviet messages into his operas. Within the operas ...
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 ...
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 Nightingale and the Rose: Chamber Opera in Two Acts
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
I chose Oscar Wilde’s short story, The Nightingale and the Rose (about a nightingale
who sacrifices her life to create a red rose for love), for my opera for its fantasy, wit, and
expectation-defying tropes. This ...
forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This quartet features a transparent structure in which a dense, static ensemble motif
gradually and smoothly transforms into a highly active and agitated counter-motif. This process
repeats twice: with each iteration, ...
Symphonic Poem No. 1, Poems on Stone Drums, for Full Orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Symphonic Poem No. 1, Poems on Stone Drums is an orchestral piece with three main
sections played in a single continuous movement. Its inspiration comes from a set of ancient
Chinese seal scripts on ten drum-shaped ...
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 ...
Masks
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Masks is inspired by a type of Chinese opera called Chuanju, which comes from the
Sichuan region in southwest China. In Chuanju, each character has his or her own type of
face makeup. For example, semi-transparent makeup ...