| Composer | Sehyung Kim |
| Year of composition | 2016-2017 |
| Scored for | for woodwind instrument and piano / for saxophone, double bass and piano / for daegeum and piano with e-bow |
| Instruments | ww, pno / sax, db, pno / daegeum (jeongak or sanjo), pno + e-bow |
| Format | A4 (album) |
| Total number of pages | 20 |
| Genre | chamber music |
| Duration | ∞ (the duration of each piece is up to the performers) |
| Number of parts | 3 |
| Order and titles of parts | Sijo_011115 for woodwind instrument and piano Sijo_271015 for saxophone, double bass and piano Sijo_020517 [GEORI] for daegeum and piano with e-bow |
| Dedication | to Doris Nicoletti and Frederik Neyrinck (Sijo_011115) for the ensemble GEORI (Sijo_020517) |
| Commissioned by | Sijo_011115: commissioned by the FreDo duo; Sijo_271015: commissioned by the Kazakh Embassy in Vienna (Austria); Sijo_020517 [GEORI]: commissioned by the ensemble GEORI (Republic of Korea). |
| Date of premiere | 28.04.2016 (Sijo_271015) |
| Location | Kasachische Perlen Festival (Sijo_271015) |
| City, country | Graz, Austria (Sijo_271015) Seoul, South Korea (Sijo_020517 [GEORI]) |
| Performers | Ensemble Schallfeld (Sijo_271015) |
Sehyung Kim was born in 1987 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Composition classes began at the age of sixteen under the guidance of Bakir Bayakhunov in Almaty Music College. P. I. Tchaikovsky. He studied at the Moscow State Conservatory. P. I. Tchaikovsky (2007-2012), class composition prof. Vladislav Agafonnikov; there he took individual classes with Dmitri Kourliandski and Yuri Kasparov. In 2013-2018 studied at the University of the Arts and Performing Arts in Graz (Austria), composition class by prof. Beat Furrer. From 2019 he is a master’s student in composition and musical theater under prof. Bernhard Lang at the same university in Graz.
Sehyung Kim has been awarded prizes at international competitions “DuoSolo” (USA, 2010), “Step to the left” (Russia, 2012), “de la ville de Boulogne-Billancourt” (France, 2014), winner of the composer competition under the aegis of the 10th international competition “Franz Schubert and the Modern Music” (Austria, 2017), the 7th Johann Joseph Fux opera composition competition (Austria, 2018).
Also he participated at the 45th and 47th international summer courses in Darmstadt (Germany, 2010 and 2014), the 2nd, 4th and 5th international academy of young composers in Tchaikovsky city (Russia, 2012, 2014, 2015, the 2nd Ukrainian Biennale for New Music (Ukrain, 2013).
In 2013 he was Composer-in-residence at GAM-Ensemble in Moscow. In 2013 he received a scholarship at the 11th International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music in Graz. In 2015 he received the music prize of the city of Graz “Musikförderungspreis der Stadt Graz”. He has received commissions from many projects and festivals such as “impuls”, “Internationale Musikbrücke und Kulturverein Österreich”, ORF, Jeunesse and others.
Among his performers are: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, eNsemble (Russia), Nostri Temporis (Ukraine), dissonArt ensemble (Greece), Batida ensemble (Switzerland), Schallfeld ensemble (Austria), Klangforum Wien (Austria), EnsembleSpectrum (Slovakia) and others.
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