https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQCDhdXolPg
Music and lyrics by Joy Son
Arranged by Joy Son
Vocal: Allison Strong
Piano: Joy Son
Guitar: Mark Cocheo 
Bass: Matt Scharfglass 
Drums & Percussions: Jeff Roberts
Violin: Michael Hunter 
Cello: Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf, Michael Hunter 
Producing: Joy Son & MP Kuo 
Audio engineering: MP Kuo

My Father's House

This is for the month of March as a part of 12 MONTHS FOR PIANO, my You Tube composition series where I premier a brand new solo piano piece each month.

The winter couldn’t have felt any colder/longer this year. Besides the new variant of the never-ending Covid-19, I was terrified, angry, and deeply saddened by the rising of Asian hate crimes around us. Then now there’s this Ukraine War. Will it EVER stop? Can’t we be just kind to each other? 

So, in order to stay positive and heart-centered, I wrote a hymn to hope, longing for a new world without wars and violence. I hope this song will give you a moment of peace.

If you enjoyed this piece, please visit my Youtube channel and subscribe to follow my journey (link in my profile). Sheet music is available on my website (also in profile).

Copyright 2022 © Joy Son
All Rights Reserved

Spring Anew (in the midst of the horrors happening in the world)from 12 MONTHS FOR PIANO

"Spring Anew" for Piano Trio (for Ukraine)
Composed by Joy Son (c. 2022)
Violin (Hong Youn Kim)
Cello (Hong Min Kim)
Piano (Kyung Sun Baik)

Sheet music is available on my website.
http://composedbyjoyson.com

Copyright 2022 © Joy Son
All Rights Reserved

"Spring Anew" for Piano Trio

The ultimate alt pop marriage songs, The Weepies get on one knee!

Y-E-S

Musical 『舞音-MANON-』
(Music by Joy Son, libretto/dir. by Keiko Ueda, choreographed by Yuka Oishi) was commissioned by Takarazuka Revue Company in Japan. 『舞音-MANON-』 is loosely based on the 18th century classic French literature “Manon Lescaut”. This new musical adaptation tells a tragically romantic story between a young elite French navy officer Charles De Dion and a capricious local dancer Phan Thuy Lien (a.k.a. Manon) in 1920’s turbulent French Indochina. In this unique fusion piece, Western romanticism meets Eastern minimalism and interplays through lush score & dance with a 80-person all female cast and a 23 piece orchestra. Takarazuka performance: November 13, 2015 – December 14, 2015 in 2,550 seat Takarazuka Grand Theater. Tokyo performance: January 3, 2016 – February 14, 2016 in 2,069 seat Tokyo Takarazuka Theater. All music from this selection composed and orchestrated by Joy Son unless otherwise indicated.

2. Cay Truc Xinh (Vietnamese Folk Song) + Exotic Rain

from Better Than Dreaming 
(Music by Joy Son, Book and Lyrics by Alan Gordon)

See Me Now

Known for versatility in crossing over various genres, composer Joy Son has written musicals, classical pieces and pop. “Ave Maria for Soprano, Cello and Piano” is her first sacred music composition. Written as a testimony and expression of the composer's gratitude toward God after her visits to Vatican City and Santiago de Compostela. Featuring Amy Justman (Vocal), Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf (Cello) and Joy Son (Piano). 

Sheet music is available on my website.
http://composedbyjoyson.com

Recorded at 2nd Story Sound, NYC by MP Kuo, Mixed/Mastered at MPK Recording, Videographer/editor: Hannah Beal, Video Production by MPK Production. Copyright 2018 © Joy Son All Rights Reserved.

Ave Maria for Soprano, Cello and Piano

written by Nikki Shannon and Noel Cohen
Nikki on vocals.

Glow

Music by Joy Son
Book and Lyrics by Steve Routman


Things Will Change

LOVERS IN PARIS 2012 Original Seoul Production Live Recording 
Music by Joy Son 
Book & Lyrics by Heejoon Lee


*Bonus Track: 씨네마천국 (Cinema Paradiso Pt.1 + Pt.2) demo

Joy Son [Composer/Orchestrator/Arranger]: As a multi award-winning theatre composer, Her musicals have been performed here in the US and in Asia. As for Takarazuka Revue Company’s (founded 1913) musical 『舞音-MANON-』, she was the third foreign composer (after Frank Wildhorn and Sylvester Levay) to be commissioned to write the original musicals for them in their more than one-hundred-year history! 

Notable full length musicals: With Alan Gordon: BETTER THAN DREAMING [2020 Raise Your Voice Competition Winner, 2018 York Theatre NEO reading series workshop, 2015 Santa Fe Musical Festival, 2014 IMEA Awards] and THE UNITED STATES OF US [2014 American Harmony Prize, 2018 Florida Theatrical Association Workshop Production]; With Kirsten Guenther: LITTLE MISS FIX-IT [Pace New Musicals, Roundabout Underground Reading Series, CAP21 and Emerson College Workshop Productions]; With Steve Routman: THE FISHER KING; With Heejoon Lee: LOVERS IN PARIS (Korean title: 파리의 연인) [2012, D-Cube Arts Center, Seoul; 2012 The Musical Awards Best Score Nominee] and RUNWAY BEAT (Korean title: 런웨이 비트) [2015 Arko Art Center, Seoul]; With Keiko Ueda: 『舞音-MANON-』 [Takarazuka Revue 2015-2016 Production, Tokyo & Osaka]. 

With the versatility of crossing over various styles, Joy also writes classical music, pop, sacred music, and provides arranging and orchestration services for others.

Awards: Winner of 2021 Raise Your Voice Competition; 2018 & 2019 Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist; 2017 York Theatre NEO Fellow; 2015 Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award semi-finalist; Winner of 2014 IMEA Awards (Best Original Score); Winner of 2013 Arts Council Korea National Grant; 2006 Shelley Pinz Prize

Affiliation: Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
http://composedbyjoyson.com

2. Cay Truc Xinh (Vietnamese Folk Song) + Exotic Rain

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