octet (2023-24)
Composed by Jeonghyeon Joo
Performed by:
Sharon Chohi Kim, voice
Jeonghyeon Joo, haegeum
Linnea Powell, viola
Georgia Bell, bass
M. A. Tiesenga, alto sax
Ethan Marks, trumpet
M A Harms, percussion
Matt Le Veque, percussion
Program Notes:
JEONGHYEON JOO:
octet
octet (2023/24) is woven by extremely
low or high sustained notes and
inevitable noise emerging from
them, played by an unconventional
combination of instruments. octet
invites listeners to capture and
explore the moment of shared
harmonics and contrasting textures
resonating as a whole.
Composer Bio:
JEONGHYEON JOO is a haegeum
performer/composer based in Los
Angeles and Seoul. Her practice
includes performance, composition,
improvisation, artistic research,
collaboration, writing, and teaching.
She explores the physical, social,
cultural, and political relationship
between the performer and instrument,
frequently collaborating with
filmmakers, visual artists, composers,
and performance artists. She is a
recipient of the Arts Council Korea’s
Grant for Pioneering Artists of the
Next Generation in Traditional Arts,
the Seoul Foundation for Arts and
Culture’s Grant for Emerging Artists
in Performing Arts, the Presidential
Award of Korea, and the First Prize at
the KBS Korean Music Competition
among others. She has frequently given lectures
and presented her works at institutions
and conferences across North
America and Asia, such as UCLA,
UC Berkeley, CalArts, Seoul National
University, International Computer
Music Conference, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival,
Composition in Asia International
Symposium, Philosophical Research
Center, and Korean Cultural Center
Los Angeles, among others. Her
writings can be found in a journal,
Korean Contemporary Composers
and Compositions, and the program
books of The Art of Bowing and
EXERCISE, her large-scale performance
projects.
She received a Doctor of Musical
Arts from the California Institute
of the Arts (CA, United States) and
is currently an Assistant Professor at
the School of Performing Arts in the
Seoul Institute of the Arts, serving as
a Program Director at Culture Hub.
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