EDUCATION

Ph.D. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, TX, USA (Music Ministry) 2012-present

Ph.D. University of North Texas, Denton, TX USA (Music Composition & Minor Theory)

M.A.  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ (Composition)

B.A.   Dankook University, Seoul, South Korea (Composition)

Additional Study Westminster Choir College, Rider University NJ, USA (Choral Conducting)

TEACHING

•Assistant, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Music Theory 2012-present

•Faculty, Music Conservatory of Texas, Frisco School of Music, 2011-2012 

•Teaching Fellow, University of North Texas College of Music, Composition 2006-2010   

•Teaching Assistant, University of North Texas College of Music, Music Theory 2008-2010

                               

ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT

•Teaching Fellow, University of North Texas College of Music, Composition, 2006-2010

•Guest Artist, State University of New York Oneonta, The Music Festival: New Music,Focus Week [March 28-April 1, 2010] NY, USA  

•Teaching Assistant, University of North Texas College of Music, Music Theory, 2008-2010         

•Translator, Myongji University, Joseph Klein’s Compositional Techniques, Lecture, Seminar, Master class, and Rehearsal [Oct. 20-21, 2008], South Korea

•Translator, Soowon University, Lecture [Oct 22], Soowon, South Korea

•Translator, Dankook University, Lecture [Oct 23], JukJeon, South Korea  

•Translator, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Seminar of Jung Sun Park’s Choral Composition Techniques, 2006          

•Accompanist (piano), Texas Woman’s University, Dance Department 

•Accompanist (piano, Percussion), University of North Texas, Dance Department

•Accompanist (piano), Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Dance Department

RECENT SELECTED PERFORMANCES           

International Percussion & Composition Summer Camp, Seoul, South Korea, 2013

Electric Music Midwest Festival, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois, USA, 2012

Documenta 13, Cantus Curatio VI & VIII, Kassel, Germany

Society of Composers Inc., Mons Montis, VA, USA

Joven Orquesta Provincial de Malaga, From Dawn to Sunset, Málaga, Spain

PAS Italy-International Competition, 2011 Explorations of a Drum, Via Collina, Italy

ICMA International Computer Music Conference, Mons Montis, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

ICCMS International Conference of the College Music Society, Mei Votum, S. Korea           

Electronic Music Midwest Festival, KS, USA

Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition, Cantus Curatio IX, Muziek Centrum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands          

                                  

UNT Jazz Series, Cantus Curatio I & VIII, EGO, Connected, TX, USA

SEAMUS The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Mons Montis, University of Miami, FL, USA

                                

Electro-acoustic Music on Radio New Zealand, New Zealand

Electro-Acoustic Music Concerts, Cantus Curatio, 2010

The National University of Music Bucharest, Romania

Pina Bausch Theatre, Folkwang University, Essen, Germany

Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA, USA

Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte (IUNA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Art of Record Production Conference, Cantus Curatio, England, United Kingdom

The 4th Annual Kentucky New Music Festival, Reflection on the Glass, KY, USA

Europe Tour Concert: Prelude, Chasing Invisible Light, improvvisazione con le mani, Pontis, Mei Votum, Dear Friend, Treviso Italy [July 2], Berlin Germany [July 4], Vienna Austria [July 6], Paris France [July 11]

Aspen Music Festival, Top of the Mountain, Aspen, CO, USA

ICMA International Computer Music Conference, Reflection on the Glass & Cantus Curatio, New York University, Stony Brook University, NY, USA

South Korea Tour Concert, Mei Votum, KonKuk University [May 20], Baekseok Arts University [May 27], Seoul, South Korea

FILMIDEO Film Festival, Jessica’s Story: One Child’s Justice and Healing, USA

SEAMUS, Reflection on the Glass St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA

SUNY New Music Focus Week, Reflection on the Glass, SUNY, NY, USA

The 18th International Review of Composers, 2009, String Quartet No.1, Serbia

The Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Reflection on the Glass, KS, USA

SCI, The Society of Composers, Inc. Conference (V), Cantus Curatio II, IA, USA

Rarescale, New Music for Alto and Bass Flute Premiere Series, London, United Kingdom

SCI, The Society of Composers, Inc. Conference (VI), Different but One Body, OK, USA

The Belvedere Chamber Music Festival, Mei Votum, TN, USA   

       

The 2nd Kentucky New Music Festival, 2008, Cantus Curatio, KY, USA

Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Cantus Curatio, Lewis University, IL, USA

CFAMC Biennial Conference, Different but One Body, IN, USA

FILMIDEO Film Festival, Deception, Redsaw Gallery, Newark, NJ, USA

NASA the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, SC,   USA

            

Texas Film Festival 2007, Deception, TX, USA

MINISTRY

•Conductor & Composer, Semihan Youth Orchestra, Carrollton, TX, 2010-present

•Pianist, First Baptist Church in White Settlement, TX, USA 2013-present

•Music Director, Aubrey First United Methodist Church, Aubrey, TX USA, 2007-2012

•Pianist (Morning Service Mon-Sat), Denton Korean Baptist Church, Denton, TX, 2012

•Choir, Voice, Pianist, Denton Bible Church, Denton, TX USA, 2004-2005, 2012

•Music Director, New Life Community Church, Staten Island, NY, USA

•Conductor, Calvary Korean United Methodist Church, East Brunswick, NJ, USA

•Conductor, New Jersey Junior Orchestra (United Methodist Church), East Brunswick, NJ, USA

•Pianist, Briarwoods Presbyterian Church, Japanese Service, Birmingham, AL, USA

•Music Director, Shin Ju Ku Church, Tokyo, Japan

•Founder, Jeiro (In the Name of Jesus) Singing Group, Seoul, South Korea

•Conductor, Kwan-Ak Presbyterian Church (Hae O Rum Church), Seoul, South Korea

•Conductor, Hallelujah College Choir, Conductor, Seoul, South Korea

•Conductor, Shi-on Adult Choir, Conductor, Seoul, South Korea

AWARDS AND HONORS

•Outstanding Music Composition Graduate Student Award 2011

•UNT Travel Grant Award

•Richard and Candace Faulk Young Composers Scholarship 2010        

•Scholarship, ICMA the International Computer Music Conference

•Second Prize, The Con/un/drum Solo Percussion Composition Competition 2009

•University of North Texas Graduate Student Travel Grant 2008

•National Scholars Honor Society

•Dallas Symphony Orchestra/ Voices of Change for North Texas Young Composers, Honorable Mention                             

•Alpha Alpha Chapter of the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society 2007 

•Second Prize, PAS Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest 2005        

•National Dean's List 2004 

•Im Sik Kim Family Scholarship       

•First Prize, the Joong-Ang Competition, Contemporary Music Composition 1997(One of the most prestigious composition awards in South Korea)

•Excellence Prize, the 2nd Sung Nam Choir Composition Contest, South Korea 1996

•Excellence Award & Scholarship, the Seoul Contemporary Music Festival, S. Korea 1995

•Excellence Award & Scholarship, the Pusan Contemporary Music Festival, S. Korea          

•Gold Prize, MBC Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation 14th Art Song Composition Contest for Young Composers accompanied by MBC Orchestra, S. Korea 1994

RESIDENCIES, LECTURES, & PRESENTATIONS         

•  International Composition & Percussion Summer Camp hosted by the Toho

oGakuen School of Music (Japan) [July 16-22] Seoul, South Korea, 2012          

•  Aspen Music Festival, Presentation: Musical Language and Compositional

oTechniques in Top of the Mountain, Aspen, USA

•Europe Concert Tour (Lecture Recital) Prelude, Chasing Invisible Light,

oimprovvisazione con le mani, Pontis, Mei Votum, Dear Friend, Italy [July 2],

oGermany [July 4], 2010

•State University of New York New Music Focus Week, Resident [March 28-April 1]

oLectures & Concert, My Musical Language and Compositional Techniques,

oStunning Sound, Gamelan and Composers, Oneonta, NY, USA          

•MICMF Myongji International Contemporary Music Festival, Translator

o(Lectures, Seminars, Rehearsals, Lessons) Myongji, South Korea, 2008

PUBLICATIONS

•Explorations of A Drum for Snare Drum solo, HoneyRock Publishing, USA and selected for PAS International Percussion Competition, Italy [2011]

•Mons Montis, A Great Rock for Multi percussion solo with 2-Channel Electro-Acoustic Music, HoneyRock Publishing USA

•Different but One Body for Percussion Ensemble, Keyboard Percussion Publication, USA

•Lift up My Hands to You (2003/Rev. 2011) for Four Hands for Piano (arranged by Peter Saleh for Percussion Ensemble- 13 players), Keyboard Percussion Publication, USA

BROADCASTING/RECORDINGS /REVIEWS

•From Dawn to Sunset for Orchestra (premiere, 2012), for International Women’s Day, Joven Orquesta Provincial de Malaga, Teatro Cervantes, Málaga, Spain

•Top of the Mountain for Trumpet and Two Percussion players, CD release [2011] on Cristal Records Inc., John Holt, Christopher Deane, Mark Ford, USA

•Mons Montis for Multi Percussion and 2-Channel Electroacoustic Music broadcasted [Dec 17, 2010] Electro-acoustic Music on Radio New Zealand Concert, Radio New Zealand, New Zealand

•Reflection in the Glass for Vibraphone and Live Electronics (MAX MSP) mentioned [March 19, 2010] by Theresa Sauer in Encounters with Contemporary Women Composers Part 1 IAWM The International Alliance for Women in Music Blog

•Exploration of Time (2006), CD release Mons Montis HoneyRock Publishing, USA

•Different but One Body for Percussion Ensemble reviewed in Percussive Art Society Percussive Notes 90 August 2006, USA

•Let’s Set Passionate Fire (1994) for Baritone and Orchestra CD release on YBM Seoul Recording Company & MBC Art, the MBC Art Song Composition Festival for Young Composers, Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra, Seoul, South Korea

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION, PANELS

•Board member, Composers Forum, University of North Texas, College of Music, 2010-2011     

•President, Composers Forum, University of North Texas, College of Music, 2009-2010           

•Curator & Adjudicator, Tour Concert [May 20&27] UNT in South Korea, 2010  

•   Visiting Volunteer, Voices of Change (New Modern Contemporary Music Ensemble), 2010 Summer  

•Director, CHOI Contemporary Music Ensemble, 2009-2011

•Curator, Europe Concert Tour [July 1-13] Italy, German, Austria, and France                       

•Curator & Organizer, Soaring Sound-Electroacoustic Music Concert, TX, USA, 2009            

•   Co-curator & organizer: Musica Donum: A 21st Century Contemporary Music, Composition Concert with Paul Thomas, TX, USA, 2008

TRANSLATION            

•International Composition & Percussion Summer Camp [TBA]

oMaster Class  How to Write for Percussion, Seoul, South Korea                    

•Joseph Klein’s Two Text Settings with Computer Music: Three Poems from Felt, 2008

o(after Alice Fulton) and Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka

oMyongji International Contemporary Music Festival, Myongji, South Korea    

oLecture, Seminar, Master class, and Rehearsal [Oct. 20-21]

oLecture [Oct 22] Soowon University, Soowon, South Korea

oLecture [Oct 23] Dankook University, JukJeon, South Korea          

•Jung Sun Park’s Choral Twentieth Century Compositional Techniques, 2006  

o[April 7] Rutgers, the University of New Jersey State, NJ USA

 

                   

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

•Broadcast Music, Inc (BMI)

•American Composers Forum (ACF)

•Asian Composers’ League (ACL)

•Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS)

•Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI)

•College Music Society (CMS)

•International Computer Music Association (ICMA)