Celebrating music by Korean and Korean diaspora composers of the past and present.

September 27-28, 2025 · ST. OLAF COLLEGE · NORTHFIELD, MINN.

Schedule


Saturday, September 27, 2025
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


Sunday, September 28, 2025
Lunch on Your Own

12:00-1:20pm Afternoon Presentations (CHM 233)
12:00-12:25pm
Melodies of Memory: Rediscovery of Korean
Folksongs in Women’s Piano Compositions
Sunjoo Lee

12:30-1:20pm
Interculturalism in Lee Chan Hae's Pansori Remix
Compositions
John O. Robison

1:30-3:00pm Break

3:15-4:15pm Concert No. 2 in Urness Recital Hall (CHM100)

4:30-5:30pm Concert No. 3 in Urness Recital Hall (CHM100)

6:00-8:00pm Dinner Reception for all registered and paid
participants and attendees in the King's Dining
Room in Buntrock Commons

If you have any questions, please contact:

April Ryun Kim, DMA
Director, Korean Composers Festival
St. Olaf College
kim17@stolaf.edu