Esme Arias-Kim, violin (The 13th Sejong Music Competition Winner)
Milana Pavchinskaya, piano

Scattered Melodies by Misook Kim

About the composer:
Misook Kim, received her B.M. with the honor of Cum Laude from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. After finishing her “New Star Concert” sponsored by the Cho-Sun Newspaper, she entered the graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin where she completed her M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in composition and the certificate of piano performance. Reviewer Mike Greenberg, writing in the San Antonio Express-News, called the composer ‘a bold and unrepentant modernist.’ He also has mentioned in San Antonio Current, ‘her music was fearlessly Modern – spiky, protean, often highly compressed, proudly declining to participate in the fashion for “accessibility” – but she was so surefooted in her instincts and her craft that she earned her listeners’ trust to lead them safely and enjoyably through the strange realms she conjured.’ Kim has performed as a composer as well as a pianist in various concerts of her own works and other composers’ from solo to larger ensemble compositions throughout the States and Korea. Including commissions for the MUSICOPIA, Hudson Duo, Olmos Ensemble, she has won International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) Judith Zaimont Award and the Long Island Arts Council International Composition Competition in 2007. She has also won 2008 International Sejong Music Composition Competition. Her music
was broadcasted on Classical Spotlight of KPAC (Texas Public Radio) and WFMT (Chicago’s Classical Radio). Founding member of the Chicago New Arts Trio and CASA (Composers Alliance of San Antonio), Kim has served as a board member of SAIPC (San Antonio International Piano Competition). In the fall of 2006, Kim joined the faculty at the Conservatory of Music at Wheaton College, IL.

About the piece:
Scattered Melodies for violin and piano: The literal meaning of sanjo is “scattered melodies.” The traditional rhythmic accompaniment of sanjo is provided by a janggu, an hourglass-shaped drum. Variation on the basic rhythmic pattern is unlimited and this piece is written on one of the rhythmic variants based on the jung-mo-ri rhythm, a 12-beat pattern. After a slow and unrestricted opening by piano, the faster interactive rhythm starts with scattered melodies on violin and piano, while the final statement floats more serenely.

Live recording from
the 13th Sejong Music Competition Winners Concert
January 29, 2017 Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center
(www.SejongCulturalSociety.org)

Video recording by Sejong Cultural Society
Audio recording by Gene Nemirovsky, sound engineer, Terra Sounds
video ©2017 Sejong Cultural Society

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2017년 1월 29일, 시카고

13th Sejong Music Competition
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