Event Title
Korean Composer Jisoo Lee (b.1981)’s Bring Me Home (2019) Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
Performer / Ensemble
Jung Choi (Oboe), Yoon Joo Hwang (Piano)
Date of Publication
3-26-2021
Document Type
Event
Abstract / Program Notes
Living in a global society, it is essential to understand each other and appreciate the culture of others as well as our own (Jang, 2008). This lecture recital will highlight Korean composer Jisoo Lee (Assistant Professor of Composition, Seoul National University) and the expression of Korean aesthetic and musical language in his work, Bring Me Home (2019). Western music influenced Korean culture in the last 100 years, brought by Western missionaries from the United States. Jisoo Lee is an authentic Korean composer who trained only in Korea and created his own unique musical language. His music expresses Korean sensibility and the unique Korean emotion, “Han 한,” using western composition techniques. As a performer, a culturally informed approach is essential to understanding composers’ musical ideas. This lecture recital will provide helpful information to performers who want to explore diverse composers and to understand Korean heritage and musical culture, and how to shape Korean sensibility in music.
Biography
Dr. Yoon Joo Hwang, Assistant Professor of Bassoon at the University of Central Florida, has taught and performed throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe. She has been invited to present master classes at Yonsei University, China Central Conservatory of Music, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Academy, the Shenzhen Art School, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Hwang has presented scholarly research at meetings of the National College Music Society and has been selected to perform at the annual conferences of the International Double Reed Society. Dr. Hwang has adjudicated the Florida Music Teachers National Association competition and she serves as a Junior Competition Coordinator for the Florida MTNA competition. Dr. Hwang was appointed to serve as a Vice President (Korea) on the Executive Board of the Asian Double Reed Association, an organization devoted to bringing together double reed performers and teachers from throughout Asia. Dr. Hwang earned a D.M.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder under the guidance of Yoshi Ishikawa and an M.M. from UCLA, where she studied with John Steinmetz. While studying at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg in Germany, she worked with Günter Blahuschek of the Bamberger Symphoniker. She also studied at the University of Southern California with Shawn Mouser and received a Performance Diploma from Boston University under Matthew Ruggiero.
Oboist Jung Choi, a native of South Korea, has quickly established a career of both performing and teaching. She was honorably mentioned twice as the finalist for the Gillet-Fox international oboe competition and started teaching and giving master classes at a collegiate level. While she was working on her Master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music, Choi was appointed as the oboe/English horn player at the Binghamton Philharmonic. She taught at the Nazareth College and Roberts Wesleyen College in Rochester, NY as well. Upon graduation from Eastman she was appointed as the assistant principal for the Korean Symphony Orchestra and gave up to 90 concerts annually. Choi also taught oboe at the prestigious Seoul National University, her alma mater.Choi is an avid chamber musician and a member of the wind ensemble Winds, an oboe ensemble the Piri, and a woodwind quintet Sunyul. She was invited as principal oboist to Daegwanryoung Music festival, Incheon and Arts festival and Malaysia Festival Orchestra. Choi’s principal teachers include Richard Killmer, Yun Jung Lee, Myung Jin Lee, Soo Keum Kim and Jong Duk Kim. She currently serves as an assistant professor at Missouri State University and principal oboe of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra.
Keywords
Korean music, Korean composers
Korean Composer Jisoo Lee (b.1981)’s Bring Me Home (2019) Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
Living in a global society, it is essential to understand each other and appreciate the culture of others as well as our own (Jang, 2008). This lecture recital will highlight Korean composer Jisoo Lee (Assistant Professor of Composition, Seoul National University) and the expression of Korean aesthetic and musical language in his work, Bring Me Home (2019). Western music influenced Korean culture in the last 100 years, brought by Western missionaries from the United States. Jisoo Lee is an authentic Korean composer who trained only in Korea and created his own unique musical language. His music expresses Korean sensibility and the unique Korean emotion, “Han 한,” using western composition techniques. As a performer, a culturally informed approach is essential to understanding composers’ musical ideas. This lecture recital will provide helpful information to performers who want to explore diverse composers and to understand Korean heritage and musical culture, and how to shape Korean sensibility in music.