Composers
Dong-Jin Bae won the Grand Prize at the Han Min-Zok Composition Competition Festival of the Music Association of Korea, 1st Prize at the International Composition Competition at the Weimarer Frühjahrtage in Germany, and the Ilshin Cultural Foundation Composition Award based on composer and critic nominations. Dong-Jin Bae earned a bachelor’s degree in composition from the Korea National University of Arts. He earned a diploma in composition from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt, Germany. He completed the Postgraduate from the Universität für Musik and darstellende Kunst Graz, Austria, and the Advanced Studies Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany. During his time in Vienna, he was selected for the Artist-in-Residence program coordinated by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Culture and the Arts Council Korea, and he worked as a composer for the “Mozart Foundation” in Frankfurt, Germany (2011-2012). He has been commissioned by leading music organizations such as the Kasseler Musiktage, the Ensemble Linea, the TIMF Ensemble, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Gugak Center, and the National Chorus of Korea. Composer Dong-Jin Bae served as a composer in residence for the Hwaum Chamber Orchestra (2016-17) and the Seoul Chamber O rc he s tra (2 0 1 8 -19 ) . H is w or ks ha ve bee n pe rf orme d at th e KB S Symph on y Orchestra, the Lorraine National Orchestra in France, the Ensemble Contrechamps in Switzerland, and the World Choral Symposium. Since 2019, Dong-Jin Bae has been a professor of composition at the Korea National University of Arts.
Michael Beil studied piano and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart and afterwards composition with Manuel Hidalgo. In 1996 he taught music theory and composition at the music conservatories in Kreuzberg and Neukölln in Berlin as director of the precollege department and the department of contemporary music. At this time Michael Beil also directed the Klangwerkstatt – a contemporary music festival in Berlin and founded in 2000 together with Stephan Winkler the team Skart to present concerts based on interdisciplinary concepts. In 2007 he became the professor for electronic music at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne and director of the studio for electronic music.
As composer Michael Beil has colaborated with numerous ensembles and soloists. His music has been commissioned by festivals for contemporary music including Ultraschall in Berlin, ECLAT in Stuttgart or Wien Modern and has been featured in portrait or concert broadcasts on radio stations such as Deutschlandradio, RBB, SDR and many others. Furthermore he has received scholarships for Künstlerhaus Wiepersdorf, cité des arts in Paris and the Heinrich-Gartentor-Scholarship for video art in Thun, Switzerland. In addition he participated in the Nachwuchsforum für junge Komponisten of the Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (GNM) in collaboration with the Ensemble Modern.
Michael Beil’s work focuses on the combination of electronic music, instrumental music and video. His compositions are based on concepts concerning the situation on stage in a concert in connection with the development process of musical works. Therefore the instrumentalists are mostly involved in the compositional process and their participation is documented to be part of a composition. So the temporal formation and coherence of a musical work becomes perceivable and transparent for the audience in the performance. In order to do this Michael Beil employs live and prerecorded audio and video. A further fundamental aim of his music is to to call into question the art work as a masterpiece. With a view to this Michael Beil engages exclusively with musical readymades by transforming or deconstructing familiar musical works or by techniques of displacing well known musical material or material that is idiomatic for a certain instrument in an unusual connotation.
Pierre Boulez was a French composer, conductor and music theorist, he is considered one of the leading representatives of the post-Weberian serialists movement, who also used elements of aleatorism and electronics.
As a child, Boulez showed exceptional mathematical abilities, but in 1942 he decided to enter the Paris Conservatory. During his studies, he had difficulties because he quickly developed revolutionary tendencies towards everything traditional. His musical personality was shaped mainly by the influence of two figures. The first of them was Olivier Messiaen, the second was Renй Leibowirz, who showed him serial music, in which Boulez found “harmony and richness of counterpoints, and space for development that he had never managed to find anywhere before.”
Ernst Helmuth Flammer was born in Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg/South Germany) on 15 January 1949. After passing his Abitur exams in 1969 he first took up studies in mathematics and physics. In 1973 he entered the Music High School Freiburg and studied with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (musicology), Peter Förtig (counterpoint and theory), Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough (composition). He also studied composition intermittendly with Paul-Heinz Dittrich. In 1980 he submitted his doctoral thesis in musicology, a study on political awareness in music as a problem for composers described by analyzing selected works of Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze. In the same year Ernst Helmuth Flammer taught music theory, counterpoint, form and analysis at the Music High School Trossingen. From 1982 to 1985 he was teaching member of the musicology staff at Freiburg University. Since 1985 he is active as a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Newcastle, Melbourne, Gera, Dresden, Paris, St. Petersburg, the Mozarteum Salzburg and at the renowned Darmstadt Summer Courses. In 1985 the City of Mönchengladbach appointed him as artistic director for the “Ensemblia”-Festival, which he led for two years. He then also supervised the recently founded “ensemble recherche freiburg” until 1990, a group specialising primarily in the performance of contemporary music. In 1993 Ernst Helmuth Flammer founded the “…antasten…”-Festival for contemporary piano music in Heilbronn which ran as a two-year-biennale until 2003. As a composer he was awarded several prizes and scholarships, he also received commissions in Germany and abroad. Recent CD issues include his vast superverso-cycle for organ, which was recorded by Christoph Maria Moosman for ORGANUM CLASSICS (www.organum-classics.com). Since 2003 Ernst Helmuth Flammer is teaching composition and musicology at the Music High School “Carl Maria von Weber” Dresden.
Composer Hye-Jeong Hwang completed a bachelor’s degree (B.A.) in composition and a master’s degree (M.M.) in composition theory at Hanyang University. She completed her M.A. from State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and received Ph.D. from SUNY at Buffalo in U.S.A. After obtaining her doctorate, she lived in the United States with her family and was an adjunct associate professor at Westminster Choir College in New Jersey. She served as a professor of composition at Sungshin Women’s University. Currently she is CEO of
JURGEN KUPFER
Jürgen Kupfer studied at the Zwickau Pedagogical Institute (Diploma), then was teaching in Gotha until 1971, at the same time studying music composition and piano at the “Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy” University of Music in Leipzig.
From 1984 to 1991 he was teaching tone composition, ear training and work analysis at the “Franz Liszt” University of Music in Weimar. In 1991 Kupfer founded the ensemble Musica Viva and played numerous concerts and guest performances at home and Abroad.
From 2001 the artist performed a lot in the significant cities like New York City (UA), Tokyo (UA), Chiba (Japan), Melbourne, Adelaide (Australia), Herbin, Liuzhon, Beijing (China), Puebla, Mexico City (Mexico), Johannesburg (South Africa) as well as in numerous European countries, also making CD, radio recordings and TV shows at the time.
She graduated from the department of music composition in Keimyung University. She has studied Composition with Prof. P.Herrmann in Hochschule fuer Musik in Leipzig in Germany, with D.Terzakis in Bern Hochschule in Switzerland and with R.Febel in Mozarteum in Austria. She composed numerous pieces including the orchestral pieces and gave several composition recitals in Korea , Europe and United States. She is a music director of Ensemble Goodmori and New Multi Media Art Group Klangfabrik. Currently she is a Visiting Professor of Keimyung University.
Dohun Lee, born in South Korea, majored in Composition at College of Music, Seoul National University. After graduation, he moved to Germany in 2003 and studied with Prof. Wolfgang Rihm at University of Music Karlsruhe. He won the 1st prize in composition of the Joongang competition, the 2nd prize in music composition of the DongA competition and the 2nd prize (there was no 1st prize winner) of the 2000 Tokyo International Competition for Chamber Music Composition. His works performed at the ‘K langspuren Fest ival’ in Austria, Randspiele Zepernick in Germany, the international festival of Krakow composers in Poland, the House Concert (composition recital) and New sound of Daegu with Daegu Symphony Orchestra in Korea and ICMC/NYCEMF 2019 in the U.S. etc. From 2012 to 2014 he was lecturer in the Faculty of Language and Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. And he has been invited to international composition project 250 piano pieces for Beethoven by Susanne Kessel in Bonn, Germany. He is the member of ISCM German section, Frankfurt New Music Association (FGNM) and artistic director of Koreanisches Musikfest in Deutschland. He lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany since 2009.
Composer Won-Jung Lee graduated from the Heidelberg-Mannheim National University of Music in Germany with the best results in the shortest period of time. While attending his school, he was the youngest winner of the Schied-mayer & Söhne International Composition Competition, and since then he has been awarded several competitions in music festivals, including Fondazione Donne in Music, Italy, where he has accumulated experience and skills as a composer. After returning to Korea, he worked in various works as an exclusive composer of ‘Seoul Tutti Ensemble’, and obtained his doctor in Composition No.1 from Seoul National University . He is currently working as a professor at the church music department at Chong-shin University.
Marsel Nichan is a versatile composer living in Stockholm. As a composer, Marsel constantly balances between several sources of cultural inspiration. In that sense, he is a time-typical representative of a growing composer generation that is increasingly being influenced – impressions / expressions – from a multicultural society. For Marsel personally, this complex diversity is not formed into separate incidents or decorative splashes of color, but rather a sort of artistic wholeness, an insoluble composite or alloy. Today’s expansive soundscape provides a treasure trove for his creation, a constant source of inspiration and renewal.
Marsel Nichan’s music is dramatic – for him, all the elements of the music are equally important. He believes that it is in that way composers can create a holistic picture of what they want to express with their music. Among his works you will find compositions for both solo instruments and various sizes of chamber ensembles, orchestral works, works for choir, film music and electroacoustic music.
In 2006 Marsel finished his music composition and musicology studies with a focus on contemporary music. But his composition studies started already in the music school when he was 16 years old. He also studied Electroacoustic music composition in Växjö for Anders Blomqvist and in Stockholm at EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) in 2009. During 2013/2014 he attended master classes in conducting for Mika Eichenholz. Other teachers/mentors that he has studied for is Ladis Müller, Thomas Liljeholm, Hans Parment and Svante Widén. Marsel plays also percussion instrument, piano and sings in choirs. This is something that he uses as elements when he compose music.
Marsel was chosen as the composer in residence in 2020/2021 with the ensemble Kwartludium in Poland (The programme is run by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee). He got also funding from the Promotion of Culture Fund from The Minister of Culture, National heritage and sport in Poland for a new commisiond piece by Kwartludium in 2022.
Marsel runs his own record company Nichan Records. He is also chairman of the contemporary music association Media Artes and founder/artistic director of the contemporary cultural association Nuova Arte.
Marsel Nichan is a versatile composer living in Stockholm. As a composer, Marsel constantly balances between several sources of cultural inspiration. In that sense, he is a time-typical representative of a growing composer generation that is increasingly being influenced – impressions / expressions – from a multicultural society. For Marsel personally, this complex diversity is not formed into separate incidents or decorative splashes of color, but rather a sort of artistic wholeness, an insoluble composite or alloy. Today’s expansive soundscape provides a treasure trove for his creation, a constant source of inspiration and renewal.
Marsel Nichan’s music is dramatic – for him, all the elements of the music are equally important. He believes that it is in that way composers can create a holistic picture of what they want to express with their music. Among his works you will find compositions for both solo instruments and various sizes of chamber ensembles, orchestral works, works for choir, film music and electroacoustic music.
In 2006 Marsel finished his music composition and musicology studies with a focus on contemporary music. But his composition studies started already in the music school when he was 16 years old. He also studied Electroacoustic music composition in Växjö for Anders Blomqvist and in Stockholm at EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) in 2009. During 2013/2014 he attended master classes in conducting for Mika Eichenholz. Other teachers/mentors that he has studied for is Ladis Müller, Thomas Liljeholm, Hans Parment and Svante Widén. Marsel plays also percussion instrument, piano and sings in choirs. This is something that he uses as elements when he compose music.
Marsel was chosen as the composer in residence in 2020/2021 with the ensemble Kwartludium in Poland (The programme is run by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee). He got also funding from the Promotion of Culture Fund from The Minister of Culture, National heritage and sport in Poland for a new commisiond piece by Kwartludium in 2022.
Marsel runs his own record company Nichan Records. He is also chairman of the contemporary music association Media Artes and founder/artistic director of the contemporary cultural association Nuova Arte.
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