Korean & Korean-American Composers in USA

KCSB New Music Symposium
Texu collaborated with the Korean Cultural Society of Boston to curate the New Music Symposium, an online presentations series by leading musicians with Korean Ancestry or who embrace Korean culture in their music. Below are the links to the archived videos.
10/10/20 – Joo Won Park
10/17/20 – Jean Ahn (not available)
10/24/20 – Jihye Chang
10/31/20 – Donald Reid Womack
11/7/20 – Yoon-Ji Lee
11/14/20 - Juri Seo
​2/6/21 - Jen Shyu
2/13/21 - gamin
2/20/21 - Jeeyoung Kim
2/27/21 - Jin Hi Kim
4/3/21 - Some early 20c Korean composers
4/10/21 - Hyo-shin Na
4/17/21 - Kay Rhie
4/24/21 - Chihchun Chi-sun Lee & Michael Sydney Timpson
5/1/21 - Earl Kim & Donald Sur
Jihye Chang introduces solo piano works by Korean composers
Texu talks about some early 20th century Korean composers
List of Korean and Korean-American Composers in the USA
Click pictures to visit their websites (or other representative web pages).  This page is constantly being updated: any composer of Korean heritage based in the USA is welcome to contact me for (self-)recommendations.  For more resources, please visit the Institute for Composer Diversity and The Living Composers Project.
미국에 거주하며 활동하는 한국계 작곡가들의 명단입니다. (링크 포함) 추천(자가 추천 포함) 환영하오니, contact란을 통해 연락 주세요.
Other Composers of Korean Descent (for beginners)
Isang Yun 윤이상 (1917-1995)
Sun-Nam Kim 김순남 (1917-1983)
Young-Ja Lee 이영자 (b.1931, Seoul, S.Korea)
Sukhi Kang 강석희 (1934-2020)
Byungdong Paik 백병동 (b.1936, S.Korea)
Byungki Hwang 황병기 (1936-2018)
Young Jo Lee 이영조 (b.1943, S.Korea)
Yonghi Pagh-Paan 박영희 (b.1945, Germany)
Unsuk Chin 진은숙 (b.1961, Germany)

last updated July 2024