compelling and creative bassoon composition, enjoyed it very much

For Solo Bassoon
bassoonist, Adrian Morejon

During my residency at the Isang Yun House in Berlin in 2018, I wrote a solo bassoon piece, Yun, commissioned by bassoonist Adrian Morejon. Living in the Isang Yun house helped me to imagine the life of this seminal Korean composer more closely, and contemplate his advocacy for a peaceful Korean peninsula. This piece has become the seed of my ongoing Korean Peace Project.

Complete recording from a performance on the  Music Mondays series at Advent Lutheran Church in New York City.

Chris Otto, Violin
Kevin McFarland, Cello
Liza Stepanova, Piano

An den Wassern zu Babel - Variations for Piano Trio (2010)

Passacaglia for Chamber Orchestra (complete)

Vacuum String Quartet
Gleb Khokhlov, violin 
Vyacheslav Chirkunov, violin 
Emil Salaridze, viola 
Yulia Migunova, cello
Featured in reMusik.org festival 2022
At Dom Radio, St. Petersburg, on June 2, 2022

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“There was once a scorpion who ate other insects, but perished in a well after escaping a weasel; the scorpion then regretted and its body burst into a bright flame that still burns in the night sky for the happiness of life,” as Giovanni described the flame of scorpion in Japanese fantasy novel Night on the Galactic Railroad. This composition, an epitaph to the scorpion in the night sky, explores the idea of “burn” by experimenting with different gestures and textures. It was composed in the year 2020, and was revised in 2022.
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「そしたらいつかサソリはじぶんのからだがまっ赤なうつくしい火になって燃えてよるのやみを照らしているのを見たって。いまでも燃えてるってお父さん仰っしゃったわ。ほんとうにあの火それだわ。」
宮沢賢治「銀河鉄道の夜」より

...a bright epitaph in the galaxy festival... (2020, rev.2022) for string quartet

Die Blätter fallen (2015)

Gayageum Concerto
fl/pic, ob, cl/bcl, perc, pf, vn, va, vc, db & gayageum
2005, 9' 

Descending Flow [Gayageum Concerto]

The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, director
Poem: William Butler Yeats

The angels are stooping
Above your bed;
They weary of trooping
With the whimpering dead.
God's laughing in Heaven
To see you so good;
The Sailing Seven
Are gay with His mood.
I sigh that kiss you,
For I must own
That I shall miss you
When you have grown.

Cradle Song

The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, conductor
Poem: William Butler Yeats

A mermaid found a swimming lad, 
Picked him up for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.

The Mermaid

F. KÖKSAL In par _ en _ thesis (2016), Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, dir. Julien Masmondet

Requiem (2019)

I. Requiem aeternam
II. On Immortality (Thomas Hardy)
III. Out of the Deep (Psalm 130)
IV. To One in Paradise (Edgar Allan Poe)
V. I Heard a Voice (Revelation 14)

Commissioned by St. Peter's Church, NYC

Balint Karosi, conducting
Addy Sterrett, soprano
Kannan Vasudevan, tenor

The St. Peter's Choir and Orchestra

Yun

Eun Young Lee

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