I wanted Around G to be complete enough that it could be a stand-alone piece, but also incomplete enough that it can be an integral part of my dissertation. As a result, I found myself thinking a lot about unrealized potential while writing the piece, and I attempted to restrain myself from thinking about the endless possibilities we can realize and instead considered only what is needed to reach a relatively steady closure.

Around G explores the sonic space around the pitch G, and is written for fellow explorers at the 2022 nief-norf summer festival.

Maria Castillo - Flute
Darius D. Edwards - Soprano Saxophone
Rachel Richards - Percussion
Huijuan Ling - Piano
Jayla Tang - Conductor

Dress rehearsal recording. Recorded at Powell Recital Hall, University of Tennessee Knoxville, on June 15, 2022.

Around G

Performed at Tenri Cultural Institute (New York City, NY)
Performed as part of loadbang Presents: Premieres Vol. 22

voice, Tyler Bouque
bass clarinet, Adrian Sandi
trumpet, Andy Kozar
trombone, William Lang

"Echoes of Wild Petals is a set of 4 small songs for small ensemble. In addition to the ensemble of voice and acoustic instruments, the piece makes use of electronic media. Each song is a setting of a poem by the Canadian writer and poet Paul Cameron Brown (1948- ). Since reading his work, “The Land of Look Behind”, I had wanted to set his work as much of it can speak to us in a modern context."

Echoes Of Wild Petals - I. (voice, small ensemble, electronics) [2023]

This is a short piece that I've been writing in a manner similar to how one would write in their journal so to speak. I have so many smaller works like this one that are just sitting around so I figured I'd start sharing them. I hope you enjoy!

Everything You Were Not

mvt. I - The Fast Movement

Mio Yamauchi, Ryan Reynolds, bassoons
Milo Pomerance, Andrew Koeppe, bass clarinets

2023 Akropolis Chamber Music Institute

Subsonic Pulse | for low wind quartet (mvt. I)

mvt. II - The Medium Fast Movement

Mio Yamauchi, Ryan Reynolds, bassoons
Milo Pomerance, Andrew Koeppe, bass clarinets

2023 Akropolis Chamber Music Institute

Subsonic Pulse | for low wind quartet (mvt. II)

mvt. III - The Faster Movement

Mio Yamauchi, Ryan Reynolds, bassoons
Milo Pomerance, Andrew Koeppe, bass clarinets

2023 Akropolis Chamber Music Institute

Subsonic Pulse | for low wind quartet (mvt. III)

क्ष्वेडति: β was read by the JACK quartet on December 5, 2023 on the campus of the University of Iowa.

ksvedati: β (2023) for perpared string quartet

Huijuan Ling is a composer and keyboardist currently based in Durham, NC. She likes to draw her inspiration outside the boundaries of the wobbly concept of Western art music and enjoys the process of discovering and negotiating a sound world that feels authentic both to her and her collaborators. Her music has been performed by ensembles and musicians such as the Ciompi Quartet, Yarn/Wire, Imani Winds, JACK Quartet, Line Upon Line Percussion, Patchwork Duo, cellist Ashley Walters, pianist Gloria Cheng, Kris Rucinski, and others. In 2022, her woodwind quintet "Toward a Rediscovery" won the first prize in the fifth International "New Vision" Composition Competition from the New York Dance & Arts Innovations; in 2021, she was awarded the William Klenz Prize in Composition from Duke University; in 2020, she was among the recipients of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and in 2019, her harpsichord solo "Those Cold Winter Rains" won the third prize in the SIMM 2019 International Harpsichord Composition Competition. 



Upcoming projects and collaborations include The Poetics, for flutist Brandon Patrick George from Imani Winds, saxophonist Susan Fancher, Yarn/Wire, and the Ciompi Quartet; as well as Rainy Days, a set of pieces for harpsichord and electronics written for herself. Huijuan’s works have been presented in calls for scores and conferences such as Yarn/Wire International Institute, Weekend of Chamber Music, Nief-Norf Summer Festival, Line Upon Line Winter Composer Festival, and Midwest Composer’s Symposium.



As a keyboardist, Huijuan enjoys collaborating with ensembles and frequently serves as a performer for student composers’ works. As a performer, Huijuan is particularly interested in contemporary music and baroque music. She participated in Nief-Norf Summer Festival in both 2019 and 2022 as a composer-performer fellow, and in 2017, she was the harpsichord soloist for R. Murray Schafer’s Concerto for Harpsichord and Eight Wind Instruments with CCM Chamber Winds. 



Huijuan is currently a PhD candidate in Composition at Duke University, studying composition with Stephen Jaffe and harpsichord/organ with Robert Parkins. She received her MM at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and her BM at Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Around G

Huijuan Ling

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