Hee Yun Kim, Composer

Her recent piece, Gravitation for Resonance for harp will be published in the upcoming volume of SCI (Society of Composers, Inc.) Journal of Scores.

Dec. 20, 2010 Four Colors for piano duo commissioned by pianist group The Pianissimo and with a grant from the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture will be premiered at the Sejong Center Chamber Hall in Seoul, Korea.

Nov. 11-14, 2010 Awakening (2010) for flute and piano will be premiered in the U.S. at the SCI (Society of Composers, Inc.) 2010 National Conference at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC.

Sept. 23-26, 2010 Chamber Music I (2004) for tenor and piano was performed at the 53th College Music Society National Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sept. 21, 2010 Gravitation of Resonance (2009) for harp solo, commissioned by harpist Ann Yeung was world-premiered at the Krannert Center for Performing Art, Great Hall in Champaign, Illinois.

Apr. 18, 2010 Awakening (2010) for flute and piano was Asia-premiered by Jie-Youn Lee, the principal flutist of Prime Philharmonic Orchestra in Seoul, Korea.

Mar. 30, 2010 Memoir of Dong-Hak (2005) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano was published on the 2010 SCI (Society of Composers Inc.) CD Series MOSAIC, released by PARMA Recordings’ label imprint Navona Records (www.navonarecords.com). The product is distributed nationally and internationally by Naxos (www.naxos.com). You can find MOSAIC at major retailers listed on this link.

Mar. 19, 2010 Awakening (2010) for flute and piano was world-premiered by duo Young Music (Graz, Austria) at the Flute Festival Munich, Germany. Please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRrlRdtTbDc to see the performance

Feb. 16, 2010 Fluctuation (2006) for 2-Channel CD was played at the opening concert of CHAT: A Digital Arts and Humanities Festival at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Feb. 2010 A new piece for cello solo was commissioned by Paris-based cellist Romain Garioud, the prize winner of Tchaikovsky (2001) and Rostropovitch (2002) competitions.

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Hee Yun Kim is the winner of the prestigious award, Pablo Casals International Composition Competition in France, 2007. Her music has rich imagination, colorful orchestration and dramatic energy of musical lines.  Her compositions have been performed in many cities in Europe, Asia, and the United States including New York, Boston, Ottawa, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Krakow and Seoul, and performed by prominent ensembles including the New York New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Calliopée in Paris, l’Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne in Montréal, Composers Ensemble of Northern New York, ALEA III in Boston, HET Trio in the Netherlands, and in workshops with the Kronos Quartet and soprano Dawn Upshaw.

She also served as a jury for the 2007, 2008 Salvatore Martirano International Composition Award. Her other awards include the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s Composers Programme (Canada, 2007), the Composers Ensemble of Northern New York Competition (2006), the University of Illinois Orchestra Commission (2006), the Tokyo International Composition Competition Second Prize (Japan, 2005), the ALEA III International Composition Competition Finalist (Boston, 2004). Her recent commissions include Awakening for flute and piano by duo Young Music (Austria) premiered at the 2010 Flute Festival Munich in Germany; Himalaya for cello solo by Paris-based cellist Romain Garioud, the prize-winner of Tchaikovsky and Rostropovitch Competitions; Four Colors for piano duo by The Pianissimo and the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture. Her chamber work, Memoir of Dong-Hak was published on the 2010 SCI (Society of Composers Inc.) CD Series Mosaic.

She received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Seoul National University in Korea, and her doctoral degrees from Krakow Music Academy in Poland and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her teachers include Erik Lund, Stephen Taylor, Scott Wyatt, Marek Stachowski, Sukhi Kang and Chung-Gil Kim. She has taught music theory classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a visiting lecturer.



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