It consists of three ideas as follows: the ghostly fleeting ascending glissandi, fluctuating air sounds, and the swelling suspended notes. The whole piece develops around or between these three gestures turning on themselves or going through transformations. 

The inspiration for this piece is based on the fresco L'Ascensione (c.1305, The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy) by Florentine artist Giotto di Bondone.

Elevatus was completed in 2018. It is scored for flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, vibraphone, violin, and violoncello. It received its first performance by Ensemble Mise-en under the direction of Moon Young Ha on 17 May 2018 at The Cell, New York (NY).

Elevatus

Black Arrow for bass clarinet and electronics performed by Sarah K Watts, is on BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now for 27 days. Here you can listen to the show!

Black Arrow - BBC Radio 3 Broadcast

2012, 12 mins
2222, 4231, 1perc, timpani, strings

Operatic Breaches [Orchestra]

2000, 7’ 
fl/pic, cl, bn, pf, 4vn, 2va, 2vc, db

Aube [Ensemble - 13 instruments]

Sweetness of Stars  [Solo - flute]

The Annunciation [Duo - ob perc]

Super Caelos [Solo - organ]

Amabile Saki - Music for prenatal [Duo - vn pf]

Evlogimenos

Et Descendit

Shine

Piano Concerto
2008, 15 mins
picc, fl, ob, cl, bcl, bn, hn, trp, trb, tba, 2perc, hp, pf, strings

Prismatic [Piano Concerto]

Ensemble Mosaik premiered Lux Mundi for oboe, violin, violoncello and piano during Daegu Contemporary Music Festival at Chamber Hall in Daegu, Korea.

Lux Mundi

Lazare veni foras! was completed in August 2016 during the I-Park’s Composers and Musicians Collaborative Residency, with the Ensemble MISE-EN. It was premiered by Ensemble MISE-EN under the direction of Moon Young Ha on August 30 2016 at the National Opera Center in New York.

Lazare Veni Foras!

Sungji Hong’s music has been described as “a work of iridescent freshness” (BBC Music Magazine), “the sound is utterly luminous” (Fanfare Magazine), “it had fantasy, colour and drive” (Nottingham evening post), “outbursts of rhythmic energy” (The Irish Times), and "a virtuoso exploration of the technical and sonorous possibilities” (Daily Telegraph).

She has won the Franz Josef Reinl-Stiftung (1st Prize), the Magistralia (1st Prize), the Seoul Spring Festival Composition Competition (1st Prize), the Jesus Villa-Rojo (1st Prize), the European Competition of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki (1st Prize), the Temple Music Composition Prize (1st Prize), the Crwth Competition (1st Prize), the international competition for original ballet music at the ISCM World Music Days – Slovenia (1st Prize), the Montserrat International Camera Music Composition Competition (1st Prize), the Theodore Front Prize (IAWM) and the Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize (ACL).

Her works have been commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation (Harvard University, USA), the Tongyoung International Music Festival (Korea), the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (Korea), the Keumho Asiana Cultural Foundation (Korea), the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music (USA), the International Isang Yun Music Society (Germany) and the MATA Festival (USA). Her music has been performed in over 42 countries and 145 cities throughout Europe, the United States and Asia. Her music has been widely broadcast in more than 17 countries (35 channels) and has been recorded and released on the Soundbrush, Elektramusic, Atoll, Dutton label and by ECM Records. 

Sungji Hong, born in South Korea in 1973, studied composition in Seoul before moving to England where she completed her Master in Music at the Royal Academy of Music in London and a PhD in composition with Nicola LeFanu at the University of York in the UK.

Sungji Hong

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