Jaehyuck Choi
| Jaehyuck Choi | |
| Hangul | 최재혁 |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization | Chae Jaehyeok |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ch'ae Chae-hyŏk |
Jaehyuck Choi (born October 31, 1994) is a South Korean composer and conductor of classical music, based in New York, United States, and Seoul, South Korea.
Biography
Jaehyuck Choi [1] was born in Seoul, Korea. He studied composition with Samuel Adler at The Juilliard School and is currently studying with Matthias Pintscher at the same school (2013~). He also studies with Unsuk Chin in the course of the master class series [2] held by the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.[3]
As a composer, Choi had attended summer festivals and workshops such as Tanglewood BUTI, Yellow Barn, Mozarteum Sommer Akademie, Fontainebleu Summer Academy, Grafenegg Festival,[4][5] and Seoul Philharmonic's Master Class Series, with Pacal Dusapin, Péter Eötvös,[6] Tristan Murail, York Höller, Unsuk Chin, etc.
As a conductor, he had 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. Also, Choi had attended Grafenegg Festival's "INK STILL WEL"[5] program as a both composer and conductor under the director of Matthias Pintscher with the Tonkünstler-Orchesters Niederösterreich.
He was commissioned to write a cappella piece for The New York Virtuoso Singers with Harold Rosenbaum, Violin Concerto[7] 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.
Winning prizes are SCI Young Composers Award (2015)[8][9] , 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), TIMF call for score (2013), etc. In 2016 spring, his Violin Concerto will be released as CD and Digital mp3 by the Ablaze Records, and the Piano Etude no.2 by the SAMADIS'.
Works
Jaehyuck 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 among others, as 19th, 20th, 21st-century composers of special importance for him. Choi regards his deep admiration of the works of the artist, Ufan Lee(Lee Ufan) as influential for him. He speaks his Self Portrait series, which consists of six works, is the music heard from the contemplation on Ufan Lee(Lee Ufan)'s Relatum series.
Selected works
Orchestral
- Self-Portrait VI for orchestra (2015)
Concertante
- Violin Concerto (2014)
- Small Cello Concerto (2012)
Ensemble
- 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
- Piano Etude no.1 (2012)
- Piano Etude no.2 (2014)
Solo Works
- Substance of Time for Solo Violoncello (2014)
- Viola Caprice (2013)
Vocal
- Memorandum on a Line no. 2 for 4 Sopranos, and 4 Altos (2015)
References
- ↑
- ↑ "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. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ↑ "2015- INK STILL WET".
- 1 2 "2015- Jaehyuck Choi Hankook Ilbo (한국일보) debut article".
- ↑ "2014- Jaehyuck Choi Violin Concerto".
- ↑ "SCI Award winners- Society of Composers".
- ↑ "SCI Award winners-Korea Times=".