Performed by the Windy City Winds https://windycitywinds.org/
World Premiere, 2022
Conducted by Mark Mosely

Windy City Winds 5-13-2022 Spring Concert

Journey to Eagle Peak

Dear Future for Solo Piano
Performed by Meredith Ford

Dear Future

Dedicated to EB, IB, and SB
Lyrics Adapted from Text by István Burbank
Performed by the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Iota Chapter Choir and the Sigma Alpha Iota Beta Chapter Choir, conducted by Joon Park

Dusk

Landsailor by Viena Teng
Performed by Lauren Barmore and Joon Park at the PMA/SAI Fall 2015 Recital

Landsailor

Recorded by the Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, 3/2/2016
Conducted by Dominic Talanka

Program Note:
Chaos and Chorale depicts a struggle between the dark and the light, the disorderly and the harmonious, the cacophonous and peaceful. The two distinct sections are in many ways polar opposites: rhythmic content, harmonic content, tempo, and mood all drastically differ from one to the other. However, the first section, "Chaos," foreshadows what is to come in the "Chorale" section through frequent interruptions that eventually become quotes for the Chorale main motif. The end of the piece sees a layering of both sections in a modally ambiguous, driving push towards the climactic finish. The Chaos ostinato slowly fades away as the ensemble makes its final statement. 

A huge thank you to Dr. Mallory Thompson, Dominic Talanka, and Juan Campoverde.

Chaos and Chorale

Program Notes and Ensemble can be found here: http://joonparkmusic.com/2017/04/29/landscapes-recording/

Landscapes

The Search for the Higgs (2017) for Wind Ensemble

Conducted by DaJuan Brooks

I was asked by my friend and conductor DaJuan Brooks to write a piece for wind ensemble, with a few exciting requirements thrown in: he wanted something that was relatively fast, had a lot of fast moving figures, and it had to be flashy with a loud ending. I've often found that composing with a few creative requirements can be the most fun (much like film scoring), and this piece was no exception. I knew from the get go that I wanted the piece to portray something with enormous energy. This, combined with the requirement for speed, conjured up the image of a particle accelerator (which uses incredible amounts of energy to accelerate and collide fundamental particles near the speed of light, to study the remnants of the collisions in order to discover new particles). As a student studying physics I was greatly inspired by the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012, and I decided to write a piece depicting the exciting search for this recently discovered particle and the engineering marvel that was used to discover it: the Large Hadron Collider.

I'd like to thank DaJuan Brooks, to whom which this piece is dedicated, for giving me the opportunity to write this piece and shaping it into something better than what I'd written on the page.

The Search for the Higgs

Illumination by Joon Park
Premiered by the Bienen Contemporary Music Ensemble on 5/5/17
Conducted by Ben Bolter

Illumination

High Flight

Words by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Composed and Conducted by Joon Park
Performed by the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Iota Chapter and Sigma Alpha Iota Beta Chapter Combined Choir and Tom Hicks (Piano)

High Flight

The Telling
Composed by Joon Park
Text adapted from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Performed by the Phi Mu Alpha & Sigma Alpha Iota Combined Choir, March 2020 - Northwestern University

The Telling

BM Music Composition & BA Physics, Northwestern University '18
Assistant Music Director, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia - Iota Chapter

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