Marimbella by HyeKyung Lee

MarimBella was composed and performed by HyeKyung Lee, live video mixing by Christian Faur

HyeKyung Lee - selected works

Andy Carlson, violin
Robert Jones, clarinet
Thomas Rozenkranz, piano
Todd Yukumoto, saxophones
Yen-Lin Goh, toy piano

Tuesday, February 23, 2010, Burke Recital Hall, 7:00 pm

CD review Neither From Nor Towards . . . - Shadowing

The Thelema Trio’s modular nature, even within the context of being a trio, is one of its primary strengths and they strut their stylistic, coloristic, versatile stuff with this collection of pieces. No two works share the same instrumentation nor do any of the compositions share the same sound world....
...HyeKyung Lee’s Shadowing is a canonic/imitative work for clarinet and alto saxophone. Long melodic lines weave in and out with sinewy and twisty motions. The blend between the performers is spot on and the whole piece has great long-term trajectory. The high climax reached early on in the work is the exact right music at the exact right time...

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by Jay Batzner - Sequenza 21

HyeKyung Lee - Belgian tour

Three unique concerts with pianist/composer Ward De Vleeschhouwer – together with three other guest musicians- performing music of J.S. Bach / G. Kurtag, F. Poulenc, Ward De Vleeschhouwer, Stephen Montague and own works (Gasp, Marimbella, Musique Légère, Shadowing, Gust of Embers and the worldpremiere of Musique Pétillante).

November 26 Rode Pomp om 20u.
Zaal Parnassus, Oude Houtlei 124, 9000 Gent
Ward De Vleeschhouwer & HyeKyung Lee (piano), Marco Antonio Mazzini (clarinet), Peter Verdonck (alto saxophone) and Marieke Berendsen (violin).

December 3 concerzaal Maene om 20u
Maene concertzaal, Argonnenstraat 37, 1060 Brussels
Ward De Vleeschhouwer & HyeKyung Lee (piano), Marco Antonio Mazzini (clarinet), Peter Verdonck (alto saxophone)

December 6 L'ecume des jours om 11u
Krijgslaan 4, 9000 Gent
Ward De Vleeschhouwer & HyeKyung Lee (piano)

Shadowing - Thelema Trio

Shadowing features on the new album 'Neither From Nor Towards' played by the Belgian ensemble Thelema Trio. The CD is available from Innova Recordings.
Shadowing will be performed on their USA tour in March - April 2010.
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Marimbella - SCI National Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico

HyeKyung performs Marimbella on the SCI National Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico in April 2-4.
The conference will be held in conjunction with the 13th Annual Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, and will be hosted by the College of Santa Fe's Contemporary Music Program, Steven Paxton, Chair

Gust of Embers - winning piece of the Athena Chamber Music Competition

Gust Of Embers for violin, clarinet and piano is a winning piece of the Athena Chamber Music Competition 2009.
HyeKyung will be one of the composers-in-residency for Athena Festival at Murray State University, Kentucky, March 10-13, 2009.
The faculty will play, "Gust of Embers", on March 11.

HyeKyung Lee - FUBU

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HyeKyung plays her electro - acoustic composition Fubu on the Fourtheenth Biennial Festival of New Music (January 29 - 31 2009)

Date:
January 31, 2009, 2.30 pm, Opperman Music Hall, The Florida State University College of Music.

conFUsion/comBUstion is written in 1999 for Piano and Tape (8')
order the score and performance CD for $23

Dream Play

Dream Play, written for toy piano, will be performed by 'Toypi', the worlds most virtuoso toy piano.

Date:
October 23 Logos Thetrahedon Concert Hall, M&M concert serie, Gent, Belgium

HyeKyung Lee - Marimbella

HyeKyung Lee wrote a new composition for piano and tape. The piece, called Marimbella, will be performed by HyeKyung in Chicago on the Electronic Music Midwest and in Mississippi on the Electroacoustic juke joint.

Electronic Music Midwest is dedicated to programming of a wide variety of electroacoustic music and providing the highest quality performance of electronic media. This annual festival consists of approximately nine short concerts (about 1 hour in length) over the course of a weekend in Autumn. Our goal is to bring together vibrant and interesting artists of all forms, give them a vehicle for their expressions, and a place for them to share ideas with others.

Dates:
Oct 17: Electronic music mid-west, Lewis University, Chicago
Nov 14: Electroacoustic juke joint, Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi

Shadowing

Thelema Trio's clarinettist Marco Mazzini has made a videoclip for the composition "Shadowing" - an exciting piece by HyeKyung Lee. His version for two clarinets has been featured in New York's Sequenza21.

Thelema Trio - Shadowing

photo by Ron Ablas

Belgium ensemble Thelema Trio plays 'Shadowing' on their tour in the USA.
Shadowing (2006) is written for alto saxophone and clarinet.

Thelema Trio will tour in March - April 2008 in several North-American states, preceded by the recording of their second full-CD in Warrensburg, Missouri. This CD features a programme with only new American Music, including HyeKyung's composition 'Shadowing'.

April 3	Denison University	Granville Ohio,USA
March 30	University of Wisconsin Milwaukee	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
March 28	University of Wisconsin Milwaukee	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
March 27	University of Wisconsin Milwaukee	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
March 26	University of Wisconsin Parkside	Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
March 24	University of Central Missouri	Warrensburg, Missouri, USA
March 23	University of Central Missouri CD recording	Warrensburg, Missouri, USA
March 22	University of Central Missouri CD recording	Warrensburg, Missouri, USA

Ward De Vleeschhouwer plays Opposed Directions

On a recital with Duo Dicto, Ward De Vleeschhouwer will play HyeKyung's composition Opposed Directions.

Date:
December 9, 'Gradus ad Parnassum',Royal Conservatory of Ghent, Belgium

Ward De Vleeschhouwer, piano
Marco Antonio Mazzini, clarinet

HyeKyung Lee - Hawaï

HyeKyung will play a recital with saxophonist Todd Yukumoto.

Date:
Sept 13, University of Hawaï at Manoa

HyeKyung Lee - New Music from Hawaï

HyeKyung recorded a full CD with saxophonist Todd Yukumoto.
'Blue' brings together six works for saxophone and piano, instruments which often straddle the line between musical boundaries. Four University of Hawaii composers have created works influenced by jazz and related idioms. The result is a collection of pieces which display elements of jazz to varying degrees. While it is not uncommon to find composers blurring the lines between styles nowadays, it is perhaps unique to note the widely varying backgrounds of the composers on this recording, who have found jazz to be an important element of their expression. That jazz could find its way into the "classical" works of Hawaii-based composers of Japanese, Korean, and Scottish ethnicity—the coming together of people from different backgrounds around a common theme—suggests its ubiquitous nature. Blue both honors and illustrates the influence of jazz, showcasing American music as conceived in a small, yet representative corner of our nation's vastly complex culture.

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Frenetic Dream - new composition for piano four hands

Frenetic Dream - 2 (2002) (11’ duration)
order the score for $19

Opposed Directions for Disklavier and Electronics

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Opposed Directions for Disklavier and Electronics (1997)(8')
Opposed Directions is also available for Piano Solo

The recording is available on "Music from SEAMUS volume 8" (EAM-9901)

... Austin Pianist HyeKyung Lee played vividly in her own Opposed Directions a serious, virtuosic piece with a Lisztian specific gravity. A growling controlled explosion in the bass is followed by passage of darting trills and runs in the high register. These two opposed ideas are brought together at the end ....
Mike Greenberg, San Antonio Express-News, February 20, 1999