Sunghyun Lee - 2 Etude-Fantasies : No.2, Glassy, Glossy, Gliss! for Pianoforte (2017, Rev. 2021)

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Pianoforte : Sunmin Park

Performed at Seoul National University

2 Etude-Fantasies : No.2, Glassy, Glossy, Gliss! for Pianoforte (2017, Rev. 2021)

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra 
No.1 <Der Zauberlehrling> (2021)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee
Pianoforte : Sunmin Park
Conductor : Youngseon Choi
Performed by Millennium Symphony Orchestra, Seoul, Korea

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 <Der Zauberlehrling> (2021)

Sunghyun Lee - Suite Geometrica for 16 Players : Whole Movements (2022)

I. Zigzag Toccata
II. Distorted Arabesques
III. Kinematic Sonata

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Conductor : Clement Power

Performed by Ensemble TIMF

Commissioned by Tongyeong International Music Festival 2022

Suite Geometrica for 16 Players : Whole Movements (2022)

Sunghyun Lee - Suite Geometrica for 16 Players : Whole Movements (2022)

I. Zigzag Toccata
II. Distorted Arabesques
III. Kinematic Sonata

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Conductor : Clement Power

Performed by Ensemble TIMF

Premiered at Tongyeong International Music Festival 2022
Music Director : Unsuk Chin

Suite Geometrica for 16 Players : Mov.II Distorted Arabesques (2022)

Suite Geometrica for 16 Players : Mov.III Kinematic Sonata (2022)

Sunghyun Lee - Dreaming Shengs I for String Trio (2021)

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Performed by Ensemble Hanui-Baram, South Korea

Performed at 42th Pan Music Festival, Seoul, South Korea

Dreaming Shengs I for String Trio (2021)

Sunghyun Lee - Danse Mécanique pour Quatuor à cordes (2023)

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Performed by Quatuor Bozzini, Montreal, Canada

Performed at Time of Music Festival, Parish Hall, Viitasaari, Finland

9th July, 2023

Danse Mécanique pour Quatuor à cordes (2023)

Sunghyun Lee - Le Petit Macabre pour 6 Instrumentistes (2023)

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Performed by Barcelona Modern Ensemble

Clara Saleiro, flauta
Xavier Castillo, clarinet
Nacho Gascón, saxofon
Léo Belthoise, violí
Amaia Ruano, violoncel
Carolina Santiago Martínez, piano
Xavier Pagès-Corella, director musical
Demian Luna, director artístic

Performed and Recorded at 22/06/2023, 
Sala de Cambra Conservatori Liceu

Curs Internacional de Composició Barcelona Modern (9a edició)

Le Petit Macabre pour 6 Instrumentistes (2023)

Sunghyun Lee (*1995)
Suite Geometrica, for 16 players (2022, rev. 23)

00:00  I. Zigzag Toccata
08:16  II. Distorted Arabesque
14:36  III. Kinematic Sonata

Kamariorkesteri Avanti!
Bas Wiegers, conductor

Finnish Première, 30 June 2023, Avantin Suvisoitto '23

Avantin Suvisoitto '23

https://avantimusic.fi/suvisoiton-ohjelma

Suite Geometrica for 16 Players (2022, Rev. 23, Avanti! Festival Recording)

Sunghyun Lee (*1995)
Contraflux I for Flute Solo (2025)

Hwajune Kim, Flute

Partika-Saal, RSH Duesseldorf

Contraflux I for Flute Solo (2025)

Sunghyun Lee (*1995)
Journey to the Stillness for Two Violins (2025)

Wonjay Seo and Suvd Enkhtuvshin (Violin)

Partika-Saal, RSH Duesseldorf

Journey to the Stillness for Two Violins (2025)

Sunghyun Lee (*1995)
Jardin des Voyelles II pour Soprano seule (2025)

Soprano: Chorong Kim

Partika-Saal, RSH Duesseldorf

Jardin des Voyelles II pour Soprano seule (2025)

Sunghyun Lee (*1995)
Usch... for Violoncello Solo (2025)

Violoncello: Uschik Choi

Partika-Saal, RSH Duesseldorf

Usch... for Violoncello Solo (2025)

Sunghyun Lee (*1995)
Abegg-Games II for Pianoforte (2023)

Pianoforte: Sunghyun Lee

Partika-Saal, RSH Duesseldorf

Abegg-Games II for Pianoforte (2023)

Luc Ferrari - Études d'improvisation (1977)

Sunghyun Lee (Piano)
Yejune You (Electronics)
Lukas Döhler (Violin)
Hwajune Kim (Flute)
Bastián Jorquera Figueroa (Slide whistles)

RSH Duesseldorf,
Part of IEMA-Elective Projects

(1st Mov.) Luc Ferrari - Études d'improvisation

(3rd Mov.) Luc Ferrari - Études d'improvisation

(6th Mov.) Luc Ferrari - Études d'improvisation

(5th Mov.) Luc Ferrari - Études d'improvisation

(4th Mov.) Luc Ferrari - Études d'improvisation

(7th Mov.) Luc Ferrari - Études d'improvisation

(2nd Mov.) Luc Ferrari - Études d'improvisation

M'Illumino D'immenso : Chamber Opera (2024)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Conductor: Dorian Todorov Dimitrov 
Scene: Beka Savic 

Cast:  
Joowon Kim (Claude Vivier)
Grantas Šileikis (Man in the Darkness, Vivier-Doppelgänger)
Mathias Vieira Tönges (Messenger of Death, Narrator)

Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf 
Deutsche Oper am Rhein

CONTENTS
I. Overture
II. Song in the Darkness
III. Suicidal Impulses
IV. I'm so sick of...
V. Words in the mirror
VI. Lonely Child

Music by Sunghyun Lee
Libretto by Sunghyun Lee, Claude Vivier

Written for Opera Project of Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf,
Alla Breve 2024

World Premiere :
October 20th, 2024
Maxhaus Düsseldorf - Katholisches Stadthaus

M'Illumino D'immenso : Chamber Opera (2024)

(Whole Mov.) Luc Ferrari - Sunghyun Lee : Études d'improvisation (1977)

Sunghyun Lee (*1995)
Jardin des Voyelles I pour Ténor, Baryton, Basse et Trois Instrumentistes (2024)

Conducted by Léo Warynski
Performed by Les Métaboles and Ensemble Multilatérale

Ténor: Marco Van Baaren
Baryton: Paul Alexandre Dubois
Bass: Marc Busnel 

Harp: Aurélie Saraf 
Percussion: Hélène Colombotti
Piano: Lise baudouin

Solitär, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg

Jardin des Voyelles I pour Ténor, Baryton, Basse et Trois Instrumentistes (2024)

I.
II. (06:40)
III. (13:55)

Performed by Quatuor Voce

Performed at Studio Ernest-Ansermet
Radio Suisse Romande, Geneva

  I composed String Quartet “Moment Etincelant” in 2014. This work is very meaningful to me. First, this is my first work in my university days done without taking any lesson. Second, this is my first pure “String Quartet” work. 
  When I composed this piece, I thought about the movements of light. This piece was created in my agonizing how to translate the movements of light into music, such as refraction, distortion, reflection, and wavelength. Accordingly, almost every parameter of music has been determined in a way to musicalize the various characteristics of light. 
  This music frequently flows with sound effects and gestures. Sometimes those gestures are gradually enlarged and shortened, I composed each gesture like the “Theme” of   traditional classical music. The form of music grows by lots of variations and transfigurations of those gestures, and I tried to make music which can be observed in various angles by using shapes of endless movements. And, I tried sudden switches of scenes and “accidental form” because I want to deliver direct and physical sounds to listeners by using deviation and destruction from continuous variation and systemic form.
  Three movements consist in one common motive, and this motive consists in tone materials from sound’s overtone effects. I wanted to make maximum reverberation from String Quartet with those motives and overtone effects. And, in every three movement, the four instruments often became one or two imaginary “hyper–instruments”. For example, they became floating sound structure by microtonal glissandos. Also, they became sound fragments by regular and rhythmical movements.

Moment Étincelant pour Quatuor à Cordes (2014)

Sunghyun Lee - 2 Etude-Fantasies : No.1, Colors of Blues 
for Pianoforte (2016, before Revision)

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Pianoforte : SeungAh Lee

Performed at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts

2 Etude-Fantasies : No.1, Colors of Blues for Pianoforte (2016, before Revision)

Sunghyun Lee - 2 Etude-Fantasies : No.2, Glassy, Glossy, Gliss! 
for Pianoforte (2017, Rev.2018)

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Pianoforte : Hea-Jung Cho

Performed at Seoul Arts Center

2 Etude-Fantasies : No.2, Glassy, Glossy, Gliss! for Pianoforte (2017, Rev.2018)

Sunghyun Lee - Colorplay : No.6, Glassy, Glossy, Gliss! 
for Pianoforte (2017, before Revision)

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Pianoforte : Hea-Jung Cho

Performed at Concert hall, Seoul National University

Glassy, Glossy, Gliss! for Pianoforte (2017, before Revision)

Night Fantasies for Clarinet and Pianoforte 
(2016, before Revision)

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

I. Under the Neonlights...
II. Dance on the Groove (04:12)
III. Mad Improvisation (09:50)
IV. Da Lontano - Tension over and over (13:55)
V. Beatbox Forever (18:10)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Clarinet : Hyeon Seok Lee
Pianoforte : Hyerim Lee

Performed at Sejong Center for Performing Arts, Seoul

The 49th Seoul Music Festival

Æ®·¢ 5

Night Fantasies for Clarinet and Pianoforte : Whole Movements (2016, before Revision)

Eléments Élastiques pour Orchestre (2016) 
(Sketch, SPO Reading Session)

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

I. Prologue - Scales and Overtones

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Conductor : Antony Hermus

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
(Everyone is Sight - Reading!)

Eléments Élastiques pour Orchestre (2016, Sketch, SPO Reading Session)

Bam-Sori I for Haegeum and Gayageum (2019)

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Haegeum : Jieun Kang

Gayageum : Hwa-Young Lee

Performed at National Gugak Center, Seoul

Bam-Sori I for Haegeum and Gayageum (2019)

Sunghyun Lee - Onde I for Six Players (2020)

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Conductor : Yoonhak Baek

Performed by Ensemble TIMF, South Korea

Flute : Jiyoung Lee
Clarinet : Jung-Won Yoon
Violin : Jiwon Kim
Violoncello : Jooeun Oh
Percussion : Eunhye Kim
Pianoforte : Sunin Jung

I. Stars and Crystals
II. Dialogues and Dances

Performed at 40th Pan Music Festival, Seoul, South Korea

Onde I for Six Players : Whole Movements (2020)

Sunghyun Lee - Concerto for Sheng and Orchestra : Whole Movements (2020)

Sunghyun Lee (B.1995)

Composer : Sunghyun Lee

Sheng : Jisoo Han

Conductor : Sirin Nah
Performed by Millennium Symphony Orchestra, South Korea

Performed at Jangcheon Hall, Gwanglim Art Center, Seoul

생황과 오케스트라를 위한 협주곡 (2020)

작곡 이성현

생황 독주 한지수

지휘 나실인

연주 밀레니엄 심포니 오케스트라

장천홀, 광림아트센터

이 작품은 조선시대 때부터 국악에 사용된 유일한 화음악기인 생황을 위하여 작곡되었다. 38개의 관을 가진 생황의 다양한 표현과 화음 체계를 기반으로 작곡되었으며, 이를 두 개의 악장에 담고자 하였다.

1악장은 어두운 밤의 이미지, 그리고 비교적 전통적인 의미의 선율들이 나타난다. 2악장은 밝은 낮의 이미지를 투영한 토카타(Toccata)이다. 생황의 다양한 요소들은 오케스트라에 스며들어 악기들 사이에 여러 반응들을 유발하며, 그들 사이의 긴장과 대립, 그리고 조화의 에너지를 느낄 수 있도록 작곡하였다.

Concerto for Sheng and Orchestra : Whole Movements (2020)

Sunghyun Lee (die 1995) is a composer from Seoul, South Korea.

He received his Bachelor's degree from Seoul National University and completed his master's program at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Italy, graduating with summa cum laude honors. During his studies, he had the privilege of being mentored by distinguished composers such as Unsuk Chin, Ivan Fedele, Oliver Schneller, and Uzong Choe.

Throughout his career, Sunghyun Lee has garnered recognition for his exceptional talent, securing prestigious awards in various competitions, including the Geneva International Music Competition and the "Appassionato Ensemble" International Competition. His works have been featured in prominent festivals and concerts worldwide, including ISCM World Music Days, Tongyeong International Music Festival, Avanti! Music Festival, Festival Contrasti, Como Contemporary Festival, Mise-en Festival, Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival, etc.

Sunghyun Lee has also collaborated with renowned musical ensembles such as Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, IEMA Ensemble, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Fontana Mix Ensemble, Barcelona Modern Ensemble, Ensemble Mise-en, Schallfeld Ensemble, Ensemble Ictus, Ensemble Novecento, Quatuor Bozzini, Quatuor Voce, Trio Estatico, Ensemble TIMF, Zohn Collective, AsianArt Ensemble, Ensemble Phase, Ensemble Blank, Sori Percussion, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, showcasing his versatility and innovative, playful compositions.

Currently, Sunghyun Lee is continuing his compositional studies under the guidance of Professor Oliver Schneller at Robert Schumann Hoschule Duesseldorf. He is presently based in Frankfurt, Germany, where he continues to pursue his IEMA (International Ensemble Modern Academy) as a residence composer.

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