2025 Korean Composers Festival

The Second Korean Composers Festival will be held September 27-28, 2025 on the campus of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. The festival will feature presentations and performances of music written by Korean and Korean diaspora composers of the past and present.

Schedule for Saturday, September 27

10:00am-3:00pm        Festival Registration Check-In

10:45-11:00am             Welcome in Urness Recital Hall (CHM 100)

11:00-12:30pm             Lunch in Stav Hall in Buntrock Commons

12:45-2:10pm               Afternoon presentations in Fosnes (CHM 233)

12:45-1:10pm               Contemporary Korea on Piano: Texu Kim’s Co.Ko. – un poco Loco (2017) — Koeun Grace Lee

1:15-1:40pm                 Multiethnic Traits in the Compositions of Liliya Ugay — Craig B. Parker 

1:45-2:10pm                Unsuk Chin’s Gougalōn — Texu Kim

2:15-2:30pm                Break

2:30-4:00pm              Afternoon presentations in Fosnes (CHM 233)

2:30-2:55pm               Shaping Future Leaders: The Role of Commissioned Piano Pieces in Students’ Musical Growth                                           — Chee Hyeon Choi and Seunghee Lee

3:00-3:50pm              World Sanjo for Clarinet and Drumset — Patrick O’Keefe

4:00pm-6:30pm       Break/Dinner on Your Own

7:00-8:30pm             Concert No. 1 in Boe Memorial Chapel