JungGa to be featured as finalist in Toonzetters competition 2010

JungGa, concerto for oboe/musette and chamber ensemble (2009), has advanced as one of three finalists of the Toonzetters competition. Toonzetters is an annual Dutch competition that, since 2008, seeks out the best contemporary music in the Netherlands. The winner will be awarded a grand prize of €10,000.

During this exciting two-day event, all ten nominees will have their pieces performed. Please join us August 28-29 at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ for the free concerts!

Prestigious Bellagio Center Residency in Italy

The Rockefeller Foundation has invited Seung-Ah Oh to participate in a residency at its picturesque Bellagio Center. In late spring 2011, Ms. Oh will travel to Italy to work on her new Concerto for Double String Quintet and Chamber Orchestra. The concerto will be written for the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music's Contemporary Music Ensemble led by Timothy Weiss.

Omnibus Laboratorium international young composers workshop in Uzbekistan

From October 25 through October 30 2010, Seung-Ah Oh will be one of the leaders of the international workshop Omnibus Laboratorium at Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The Omnibus ensemble is the only ensemble that brings New Music to central Asia, and its annual international meeting brings together young composers from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Ms. Oh will give public lectures on her music and a short talk on non-Western sound and concept in contemporary music and meet young composers for private lessons. The final concert at the Ilkhom theater, Tashkent is scheduled on October 30, and will featured three of Ms. Oh's pieces.

Brisk recorder quartet and percussionist Ramon Lormans to perform new work

Amsterdam-based recorder quartet Brisk and percussionist Ramon Lormans will be premiering a new work by Seung-Ah Oh on November 6, 2010 at the Noorderkerk in Amsterdam. Following the November premiere, the quartet will perform the new work on December 3 at Vredenburg Leeuwenberg in Utrecht and as part of Brisk's 25th Anniversary Jubilee on January 9, 2011 at De Doelen in Rotterdam.

DaDeRimGil at the Bang On a Can Marathon Concert

Slagwerk Den Haag travels to New York City to sizzle the public of Bang On A Can Marathon Concert. This annual 12 hour long FREE Live music concert became one of the most exciting music events in NYC. The location is gorgeous and gigantic open space at the Winter Garden Atrium in the Worlds Financial Center. Check out more information by clicking here (schedule). DaDeRimGil is originally commissioned and premiered by the former generation of Slagwerkgroep Den Haag in 2003. Now with the new members and alternate instrumental set-ups, this will be an undoubtedly exciting and overwhelming event especially with the thousands of public.

Words and Beyond: Hwang Jin-Yi (W&B) hits Muziekgebouw Amsterdam in May 2010

Since its premiere in October 2008, W&B has made its way to various locations in the Netherlands and Huddersfield, England. Now it comes to Amsterdam audiences. For this special performance the entire configuration of grotezaal will be changed into a circular seating around the square stage in the main space. To learn more about the program please click here.

Words and Beyond: Hwang Jin-Yi Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij Zaterdag Mei 15 2010 20:15 grote zaal 19:15 Inleiding Foyer deck

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Guggenheim fellowship 2010

Seung-Ah Oh is named as one of ten recipients in music composition for the prestigious Guggenheim fellowship 2010.

Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.

During the fellowship period, she will work on new pieces for ICE, Hexnut (NL), CME at Oberlin, new piece for guitarist Dan Lippel(US), flutist Daniel Agi(GB), and more. To read the press release, please visit click the following link. www.gf.org/news-events/press-releases/

Lege Wieg

Een nieuwe Nederlandse opera naar een oud Turks volksverhaal.

Een originele productie door de verwevenheid van de Turkse en Nederlandse cultuur en een spannende samenwerking tussen Nederlandse en Turkse professionals en amateurs. De opera vertelt het verhaal over een vrouw en een man, die tegen de zin van hun families trouwen. Hun liefde wordt tot het uiterste beproefd. Maar dan nemen de gebeurtenissen een onverwachte keer; na jaren krijgen zij op magische wijze een kind… Het verhaal is door componiste Seung-Ah Oh en schrijfster Anne Vegter bewerkt tot verrassend hedendaags muziektheater.

Dutch Music Days

The theme of the 2009 Nederlandse Muzidagen (Dutch Music Days) is 'Poetry and Music'. In my new piece In den oneindige ('In the infinity'), written for Ensemble Klang and male voice, I examine the Dutch language and how it sounds to me as a non-native speaker. The text is based on a satirical poem called SIGARET KOMT VAN ZUIG ERUIT, written by the renowned Dutch poet Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer. Ensemble Klang asked 9 non-Dutch composers who have spent a substantial amount of time in the Netherlands and one native Dutchman to work with this poem.

Ensemble Klang; Peter Scheele, Bass Baritone
Oct 11, 2:30PM @ Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, BAM Zaal, Amsterdam

So-Ri I

The MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at Bowling Green State University present the 30th Annual Music Festival between October 22 and 24. Steven Stucky as the main guest composer in this edition, over 25 composers from across the nation will be featured during this event. Claire Chase and Daniel Lippel, the core members of international Contemporary Ensemble will revive one of my So-Ri series So-Ri I (2001) for flute and guitar. Please visit the website to see a complete schedule of the events.

Serenade for Four Strings

The Empyrean Ensemble presents engaging, thought-provoking and eclectic programs, enabling audiences to experience new musical sensations delivered with high artistry by its seven core players - some of the finest new music performers in California. Ensemble-in-residence at UC Davis, the Empyrean Ensemble has premiered approximately 200 works throughout the course of their existence and has performed widely throughout California, including appearances at many prominent music festivals and concert series. My Serenade for Four Strings (2005) will be performed on the opening program for their 2009 season. This program will kick off during the Festival of New American Music at California State University at Sacramento.

Nov 8, 8PM Capiscrano Hall, California State University, Sacramento
Nov 15, 7PM Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center, UC Davis

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JungGa & Words and Beyond: Hwang Jin-Yi

10.2009

The internationally acclaimed Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival will be taking place this year from 20 through 29 November. Aside from Jonathan Harvey, the hcmf composer in residence for 2009, the festival will feature an abundance of interesting composers from all over the world. I am happy to announce that two recent works of mine will be receiving their UK premiere at Huddersfield this year: JungGa, a concerto for oboe/musette and ensemble, written for Ernest Rombout and the Nieuw Ensemble, and my recent music theater work Words and Beyond: Hwang Jin-Yi, to be performed by Percussion the Hague, mezzo-soprano Margriet van Reisen and dancer Kenzo Kusuda.

JungGa - Ernest Rombout, oboe/musette; Bas Wiegers, conductor; Nieuw Ensemble
Nov 24, 7:30PM @ St. Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, UK
Words and Beyond: Hwang Jin-Yi - Percussion The Hague; Margriet van Reisen, voice; Kenzo Kusuda, dance
Nov 26, 8PM @ Bates Mills, Huddersfield, UK

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