Throughout the last season all of my newly commissioned pieces have been specifically created to promote the stop Asian American Pacific Islander hate movement. Since the beginning of the pandemic, anti-asian hate crimes in the U.S. have increased extensively. As I am committed to reestablish hope within our community, my hope is that my compositions will offer solace to the AAPI community and furthermore, to empower them to fight against systematic oppression. My artistic goal is through lending my creative voice, I will help encourage those who are marginalized and voiceless to stand up and amplify themselves for their basic human rights.

—Seong Ae Kim

UPcoming Events

Premiere of "Bay Terrace" for percussion and multimedia
Nov
8

Premiere of "Bay Terrace" for percussion and multimedia

Premiere of Bay Terrace for percussion and multimedia by percussionist Josh Perry

This concert program features new and recent works for solo percussion, interwoven with a variety of live and fixed electronic elements. It presents four pieces created in close collaboration with composers Moon Young Ha, Seong Ae Kim, and Dennis Sullivan. Each work is unique and custom-tailored, beautifully showcasing its own distinct percussion sound palette.

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Yarn/Wire International Institute & Festival
Jun
16

Yarn/Wire International Institute & Festival

  • Department of Music, Room 0113 (basement level) (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS


Yarn/Wire will kick off the 2024 Institute with a performance featuring music by Patrick Higgins and Seong Ae Kim.

Yarn/Wire performs Frosted Dawn (2024) for piano-percussion quartet.

Tickets and more info https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-yarnwire-international-institute-616-yarnwire-tickets-923952987257?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

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Hypercube performs we are here (2021)
May
11

Hypercube performs we are here (2021)

Queens New Music festival 2024
HYPERCUBE performs We are here (2021) for tenor saxophone, electric guitar, piano and percussion



HYPERCUBE will also present works by Efraín Rozas for a world premiere, alongside original works for Hypercube by Farzia Fallah, Jessica Ackerley, Brandon Connors-Morrison & Eric Wubbels.

More info
https://www.simpletix.com/e/rams-queens-new-music-festival-2024-tickets-168916

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Water Prayer- Opera Reading
Nov
10

Water Prayer- Opera Reading

Water Prayer -Opera reading workshop with Experiments in Opera


Reading the orchestral versions of new operas by Melisa Tien and Anthony Gatto; Marcella Murray and Seong Ae Kim; Jason Cady; Britt Hewitt and Jesse Gelaznik; Joanie Brittingham and Del’Shawn Taylor.

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DUOLOGUE Festival 2023- Popebama performs Mazyrinth
Sep
29

DUOLOGUE Festival 2023- Popebama performs Mazyrinth

DUOLOGUE 2023

Bowers Fader Duo | Popebama | Miolina

–Bowers Fader Duo will be performing works by David Claman (text by Herman Melville), Richard Derby (text by Charlene Derby), Tim Mukherjee (text by ee cummings), Paul Salerni (text by Natasha Trethewey), Heather Gilligan (text by Langston Hughes), Erin Rogers (text by composer), & Justin Casinghino (text by composer).

–Popebama will be performing works by Seong Ae Kim, Popebama, & Dennis Sullivan.

–Miolina will be performing works by Alvin Singleton, Shruthi Rajasekar, Paula af Malmborg Ward, Takuma Itoh, Mauro Godoy Villalobos, Lynn Bechtold, & Samuel Coleridge-Taylor/arr Bechtold.

Tickets and more info

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*Premiere* momentum for solo percussionist- Percussionist David Moliner
Jun
24

*Premiere* momentum for solo percussionist- Percussionist David Moliner

Jean Tinguely kinetic art has managed to inspire the creation of new percussion premieres by 6 composers chosen by the renowned musician David Moliner.
Different perspectives and interests on the production of this multifaceted Swiss author are exposed in this concert through the works of Dorothy Hindman (USA), Seong Ae Kim (South Korea), Rodrigo Espino (Mexico), Jose Manuel Guerrero (Venezuela), Juan Antonio Serrano (Spain) and Raimon Flores (Spain). The works of these composers deal with the pitch exploration through bodily dramaturgy; this dynamic sound conception involves movement with dialectic expression showing the audience a different percussion approach.

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Premiere Break free for solo cello (2023)- Cellist Amanda Gookin
Apr
10

Premiere Break free for solo cello (2023)- Cellist Amanda Gookin

Cellist Amanda Gookin’s Forward Music Project 3.0: fever dream is an act of collective reflection, healing, and awakening. Gookin will premiere new multimedia commissions for solo cello by composers Pamela Z, Jessie Montgomery, Sarah Hennies, Camila Agosto, Seong Ae Kim, and inti figgis-vizueta explore themes of mental and physical health through a sandbox of sound design, electronic instruments, vocalization and performance art.

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Performing Side-blow for solo percussion improviser (2021)- Percussionist Josh Perry
Feb
26

Performing Side-blow for solo percussion improviser (2021)- Percussionist Josh Perry

Addressing topics of social justice, corporate America, and digital culture, this concert features new works for percussion and multimedia by composers Seong Ae Kim, Adam Mirza, Rick Burkhardt, and Ted Moore that incorporate live audio and video processing, saturated spoken text, a hybrid acoustic-analog-digital instrument, and instrumental theater.

https://joshperry-music.com/program

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Past Concerts

2022

November 12, 2022 7pm Mazyrinth- Popebama at LOFT393

November 1, 2022 7:30pm We are here- Hypercube at Mise -en place

October 19, 2022 8pm SIDE-BLOW Percussionist Josh Perry at Emory University

October 19, 2022 Artist Talk at Emory University

July 30, 2022, 12:30pm Gravity-levity *Premiere* IDRS Conference in Boulder, CO

July 21, 2022 8pm Mazyrinth- Popebama at Scholes in Brooklyn

July 11-17, 2022 Artist in Residence in Castellón, Spain.

June 22, 2022, 7:30pm Mazyrinth- Popebama at Peabody Conservatory

June 6, 2022, 7:30PM 2 Folk songs with Left Coast Chamber Ensemble at San Francisco Conservatory

June 5, 2022, 7:30PM 2 Folk songs *Premiere* Left Coast Chamber Ensemble at Mills College

June 4, 2022, 12pm We are here- Hypercube at IAWM Conference in Corvallis, Oregon

May 5, 2022, 8pm SIDE-BLOW Percussionist Josh Perry, Ensemble mise-en SOLOIST SERIES at Mise -en place

March 29, 2022 Mazyrinth *premiere* Popebama, Carnegie hill concert series at church of advent hope

March 5, 2022 5 Miniatures for flute solo- at Mississippi university for women

March 1, 2022 Artist Talk at Emory University

February 22, 2022 We are here- Hypercube at short north stage in Columbus, OH

January 27, 2022 7pm The Opening Event of the 12th annual Composers Now Festival Livestream on YouTube

2021

December 15, 2021 8pm 5 Miniature for flute solo, Kelley Barnett at Mise-en place in Greenpoint

December 15, 2021 8pm We are here, Hypercube, New York Women Composers Inc at Greenwich music house, NYC

December 3, 2021 2pm Artist Talk at the Pocantico Center of Rockefeller brothers fund

December 2, 2021 8pm SIDE-BLOW, Josh Perry at Mise-en place in Greenpoint

November 29, 2021 – December 5, 2021 Artist in Residence, Composers now and Pocantico Center residency

October 30, 2021 5pm Artist Talk at Michiko Studios in NYC

October 29, 2021 8pm ET We are here *Premiere*, Hypercube, online event

October 16, 2021 8pm Artist Talk Bethany Arts Community

October 12, 2021- October 23, 2021 Artist in Residence at Bethany arts community

October 10, 2021 3pm Fever Dream *Premiere*, Jessica Kunttu @ Duke University, NC

May 30, 2021 5pm ET/ 2pm PT Garak, Ensemble Ipse, online event

May 28, 2021 7:30 CT Garak, Er-Gene Kang, at Crystal Bridges Museum, AR

March 7th, 2021 6pmET SIDE-BLOW *Premiere*, Hot Air Festival at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, CA

2020

May 21, 2020 8pm ET/11pm PT 5 Miniatures for solo flute, Kelley Barnett, at Mise-en place, Greenpoint

March 08, 2020 6:30 pm Collocation, Josh Perry, New York Women Composers Inc at The National Opera Center

January 23, 2020 8pm Collocation, Josh Perry, at Mise-en place in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

January 17, 2020 8pm Red-Blue-Very White, Parhelion Trio at Renee Weiler Recital Hall