Jaehyuck Choi (born October 31, 1994)[1] is a South Korean composer and conductor of classical music, based in New York and Seoul.[2]
| Jaehyuck Choi | |
| Hangul | 최재혁 |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization | Choe Jaehyeok |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ch'oe Chae-hyŏk |
Education
editHe studied composition with Samuel Adler and Matthias Pintscher at The Juilliard School.[3] He also studied with Unsuk Chin in the master class series [4] held by the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.[5] He attended various summer festivals and workshops including: Tanglewood BUTI, Yellow Barn, Mozarteum Sommer Akademie, Fontainebleau Summer Academy, Grafenegg Festival,[6][7] and Seoul Philharmonic's Master Class Series, with Pacal Dusapin, Péter Eötvös,[8] Tristan Murail, York Höller, and Unsuk Chin.
Professional accomplishments
editAs a conductor, Choi pursued diplomas from Royaumont Foundation's "Cours de Chef" with Jean-Pihillippe Wurtz, Péter Eötvös, and Ensemble Linea, as well as IRCAM Manifeste's Ensemble conducting program with Péter Eötvös, Ensemble InterContemporain, and the Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble, in Paris. Choi attended Grafenegg Festival's "INK STILL WET"[7] program as a both composer and conductor under the director of Matthias Pintscher with the Tonkünstler-Orchesters Niederösterreich.[9]
He was commissioned to write an a cappella piece for The New York Virtuoso Singers with Harold Rosenbaum, Violin Concerto[10] for Gwacheon Symphony Orchestra with Jae Won Yoo, an ensemble piece for Opening 15 Internationales Festival fűr Aktuelle Klangkunst in Trier, Germany, for Ensemble Crush and a String Quartet for Yieum Ensemble.[11]
Influences
editJaehyuck Choi does not regard his music as belonging to any specific culture. Choi names Ludwig van Beethoven, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Beat Furrer[12] among others, as 19th, 20th, 21st-century composers of special importance for him. Choi regards the works of Lee Ufan as influencing him. His Self Portrait series, which consists of six works, is the music heard from his contemplation on Lee's Relatum series.
Orchestral
edit- Self-Portrait VI for orchestra (2015)
Concertante
edit- Violin Concerto (2014)
- Small Cello Concerto (2012)
Ensemble
edit- Self-Portrait V for String Quartet (2015)
- Self-Portrait IV for Flute (dbl. Bass Flute), Piano, Percussion, Violin and Violoncello (2014)
- Self-Portrait III for Violoncello and Piano (2013)
- Self-Portrait II for Alto Flute, Percussion and Violoncello (2013)
- Self-Portrait I for two Violoncelli (2012~2013)
- Silent Chaos for Flute, Bassoon, Piano, Percussion, Violin, and Violoncello (2013)
- Sonata for Violin and Piano (2013)
- String Quartet (2012)
- Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in E minor (2009)
Piano
edit- Piano Etude No. 1 (2012)
- Piano Etude No. 2 (2014)
Solo works
edit- Substance of Time for solo violoncello (2014)
- Viola Caprice (2013)
- Self in Mind for solo violin (2018)
Vocal
edit- Memorandum on a Line no. 2 for 4 Sopranos, and 4 Altos (2015)
Recognition
editHe won the SCI Young Composers Award (2015),[13][14] Morton Gould Award (2013, 2015), MTNA Composition Competition (2013), National YoungArts Foundation (2013), Pikes Peak International Young Composers Competition (2012), Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival (2013) and TIMF call for score (2013). In 2016 spring, his Violin Concerto was to be released as a CD and Digital mp3 by Ablaze Records, and Piano Etude no.2 by the SAMADIS'.
References
edit- ^ "Composer Jaehyuck Choi - About". JAEHYUCK CHOI. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
- ^ "Jaehyuck Choi | Concours de Genève". www.concoursgeneve.ch. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
- ^ FESTIVAL, LUCERNE. "Biography Jaehyuck Choi". Lucerne Festival. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
- ^ "2012– Jaehyuck Choi – Chosun Ilbo(조선일보) article".
- ^ "Jae Hyuck Choi '13: Composing Beyond His Years – Walnut Hill School for the Arts". Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Archived from the original on 21 September 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ^ "2015– INK STILL WET".
- ^ a b "2015– Jaehyuck Choi Hankook Ilbo (한국일보) debut article".
- ^ Choi, Jaehyuck Choi; Jaehyuck. "Jaehyuck Choi". www.tonkuenstler.at (in German). Retrieved 2019-11-25.
- ^ "2014– Jaehyuck Choi Violin Concerto".
- ^ "[INTERVIEW] Composer-conductor Choi Jae-hyuck explores new realm of beauty in music". The Korea Times. 2019-06-19. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
- ^ Biggs, Christopher. "Society of Composers, Inc. 2017 National Conference" (PDF). Western Michigan University College of Fine Arts and School of Music.
- ^ "SCI Award winners- Society of Composers".
- ^ "SCI Award winners-Korea Times=".