When Bora Yoon’s “The Wind of Two Koreas” is performed at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on Saturday, July 20, it will be unique among her body of works.

Yoon, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, describes herself as an interdisciplinary composer. Typically her works assimilate classical, electronic, and cross-cultural elements and employ unconventional instruments and technologies. In this instance, however, she will be taking a more traditional approach, though not to the detriment of exploring some of her usual artistic concerns.

In her first purely orchestral piece, Yoon will continue to draw musical connections to her heritage as an American of Korean descent and all of the paradoxical tensions she finds therein. But she’ll also be measuring herself against the early works of Igor Stravinsky.

Yoon’s new piece will be heard on a concert that is the public face of this year’s New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, which will be held from July 15 through July 20.

The Cone Institute, now in its sixth year, brings together representatives of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Princeton University Music Department to offer four emerging composers a unique laboratory experience.

You can read more about it, Yoon, and the concert, in my article in this week’s U.S. 1 Newspaper – PrincetonInfo, out today.

https://princetoninfo.com/a-premiere-for-princeton-composers-symphonic-expression/