[Performance Introduction]

The theme of this presentation is love and healing.

This performance was specially planned to show how teachers write songs that our students write as essential assignment songs.

I held my first work presentation in 2019, and since then, I have been planning concerts with themes of research for each concert.

The topic of my research these days is 'research on works that can be played a lot by performers'. This work also focused on such a goal.

While looking for a suitable theme for this collection of songs, I happened to come across a collection of poems by poet Ryu Si-hwa, titled ‘If you are shaken by the spring breeze, you are a flower’.

I worked with the hope that many people would know the works of this beautiful collection of poems and be healed of life.

Normally, poems are included in the performance of gagok instead of commentary on the work, but we ask for your understanding for not including the poems because many poems are used in one collection of poems.

If you meet these beautiful poems in person, I think you will be moved and healed more than my music.

I am deeply grateful to poet Ryu Si-hwa and publisher Suo Seojae for allowing me to use this poem.

[PROGRAM]

Invite

If you are swayed by the spring wind, you are a flower

Non sum qualis eram

Wildflower

Blue thistle

Crest of Scars

INTERMISSION

Today is mine, tomorrow is God's

A poem that snowflakes read to me

Meditation on the moon

Overread

My favorite person

[Introduction of composer and performer]

Composer/ Mihyun Woo

Composer Woo Mi-hyun graduated from Seonhwa Art High School and Yonsei University, studied with Simon Bainbridge at the Royal Conservatory of Music (Master - M.Mus, Doctor - Ph.D.), and Michael Jarrell at the Vienna National University of Music (P.G. for best performers). It was awarded the Mosco Carner Composition Award given to graduates. He was selected as a young composer by the London Symphony Orchestra (2012) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (2011), and his work was performed on commission and relayed by BBC radio3. In addition, her orchestral piece was performed by the Bakau Philharmonic Orchestra as a work commissioned following the 2009 Enescu International Competition.

Her works have been recognized for their artistic quality through various arrangements, and as one of the results, her piece 'Violin Etude' was selected as a designated song in the final section at the 6th Malaga International Violin Competition held in Spain. A. Rendano International Composition Competition Chamber Orchestra Section 1st Prize (2014 Italy), Alan Bush Composition Prize (2014 UK), Busan Maru International Composition Competition Special Prize (2014 Korea), Queen Elizabeth International Composition Competition Semifinalist (2013 Belgium), 9th 3rd Prize in Composition at the Young Virtuosos International Competition (Bulgaria, 2013), 1st Prize in Chamber Music at the Georgenescu International Competition (Romania, 2011), Erick Court Composition Prize (2011 London), Special Prize for Orchestra at the Val Tidone International Competition (2010, Italy), Georgeenescu International Music Competition Special Prize (Romania, 2009), KBS Symphony Competition (2007), Grand Prize (2005), Busan Orchestra Composition Competition (2005), 1st Prize, Vocal Competition (2002), Yeongnam 1st prize at the Composers Association Competition (2002)

ISCM World International Music Festival (2019 Estonia, 2013 Austria), Vienna Modern Music Festival: Selection of Orchestral Works Presentation: Webern Symphony Orchestra (2013 Austria), 9th Thailand International Music Festival (2014 Thailand), Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival (2011 , 2007 Canterbury, UK), ARKO (Art Council Korea) Creative Orchestral Music Festival (2012 National Theater Grand Theater, 2023 Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall), Seoul Music Festival (33rd, 35th, 36th, 41st), Messiaen Contemporary Music Festival (2009 London) ), the 2nd Seoul International Music Festival, the National Choral Federation Festival (2004 Seoul Arts Center), and the Nanpa Music Festival (2000).

From 2019 to 2022, he worked as an exclusive composer for the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra and is currently a professor at the Department of Music and Composition at the College of Arts, Chungnam National University.

Soprano Do Hee-sun

- Graduated from the Department of Vocal Music, Yonsei University

- Graduated from Berlin National University of Music (UdK) Professional Performer Course

- Collaborated with numerous orchestras at home and abroad, including the German Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Czech Republic Philharmonic Orchestra, Zagreb Festival Orchestra, Bulgaria National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, Austria Vienna Waltz Orchestra, Seongnam Philharmonic Orchestra, Prime Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Song Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, etc.

- Germany Berlin Philharmonic, Czech Prague Smetana Hall, Austria Salzburg Mozarteum Grosserzal and many other overseas invitation performances

- MBC Gagok Night, MBC ‘TV Art Stage’, MBC ‘TV Culture Contemplation’, CBS concert and FEBC (Far East Broadcasting) concert as a performer

- Active as a soloist in many operas, oratorios and concerts at home and abroad

- Member of Baroque and Modern Song Research Society, Korea Schubert Association, Leaderreich Professional Research Fellow, Vocal Music Association

- Served as an adjunct professor at Yonsei University and Dongduk Women's University

- Currently, Seonhwa Arts High School, Yonsei University Vocal Music Department, Yonsei University Church Music Department Vocal Music Department, Soongsil University Music Conservatory Adjunct Professor

Mezzo Soprano Joohee Kim

- Graduated from Sunhwa Art High School, Yonsei University Vocal Music Department

- Graduated from Leipzig National University of Music, Germany

- National Opera Company. Hansel and Gretel, Carmen, together with Seoul Metropolitan Opera, Gwangju Metropolitan Opera, and other leading opera companies. Casting roles in The Marriage of Figaro, Cinderella, Falstaff, La Traviata, The Bat, The Magic Flute, Cozy Fan Tutte, Modern Opera The Little Sweep, Creative Opera, etc.

- Appearance of alto soloists such as Oratorio Gloria, Messiah, Mozart Requiem, Mass in b minor, etc.

- Served as an adjunct professor at Hyeopseong University Graduate School

- Current Sejong University Conservatory, Adjunct Professor at Sejong University Graduate School of Convergence Arts, Seonhwa Art Middle School, Kaywon Art High School, Gyeonggi Art High School, Leader Reich Professional Research Committee, member of the Baroque and Modern Gagok Research Society

Piano Joohyun Lee

- Ewha Womans University College of Music and graduate piano major

- Graduated from Sungshin Women's University Accompaniment Department Ph.D.

- Participated in Salzburg Mozarteum Sommerakademie, Courchevel Alps Music Festival

- Appeared in Seoul Arts Center ‘2007 Chamber Music Festival’ and many other recitals and accompaniment for solo recitals

- Accompaniment Collection Vol. 1-6 Sound source release

- Served as accompaniment instructor at Ewha Womans University and Sookmyung Women's University

- Currently active as a member of Korea Piano Duo Association, Korea Accompaniment Association, and ensemble pianist