Schedule

Saturday, September 23, 2023                  	
8:00am-3:00pm       	Festival Registration Check-In

9:00-9:15am	        	Welcome in Urness Recital Hall (CHM 100)
             	
9:30-10:45am          	Keynote Speaker - Dr. Nathan Hesselink in Viking Theater     
                                        in Buntrock Commons
	                                Hybridity and the Boundaries of South Korean     
                                        Tradition

11:00-12:45pm          	Lunch in Stav Hall in Buntrock Commons

12:45-2:45pm         	Afternoon presentations in Fosnes (CHM 233)
                                        12:45-1:10pm 
                                        Paper Presentation: Two Voices
                                        Iseul Kim 

                                        1:20-1:45pm 
                                        Paper Presentation: Reflexive Globalism in American   
                                        Composers'  Incorporation of Korean Musical
                                            Elements in Contemporary Music 
                                        Mingyeong Son

                                        1:55-2:45pm 
	                                Lecture Recital: Emerging Korean Women Composers’  
                                            Piano Works in Teaching Studios
	                                Chee Hyeon Choi

2:45-3:00pm		        Break

3:00-5:00pm		Afternoon presentations in Fosnes (CHM 233)
                                        3:00-3:50pm 
	                                Paper Presentation: Kim Eunhye in the New   
                                        Millennium:  Arirang, Animals, and Signs of the Zodiac
                                        John Robison 

                                        4:00-4:50pm 
                                        Lecture Recital: Jean Ahn’s Folksong Revisited:       
                                            Integrating Korea and the West
                                        Koeun Grace Lee 

5:00pm-7:00pm	        Dinner on Your Own

7:00-8:15pm		        Concert No. 1 in Boe Memorial Chapel


Sunday, September 24, 2023         	        	
9:00am-11:00am	        Festival Registration Check-In              	
                                        Lunch on Your Own

12:00-2:30pm            	Afternoon Presentations (CHM 239)
	                                12:00-12:50pm 
	                                Paper Presentation: The "Sori" of Young Jo Lee
	                                Craig B. Parker 

	                                1:00-1:50pm 
         	                        Lecture Recital: Korean Adoptee from North Dakota
                                        Plays Taiko
	                                Jennifer Marie Weir

	                                2:00-2:25pm 
	                                Lecture Recital: How to Compose Music for the  
                                        Gayageum
	                                Soojin Lee 

2:30-3:15pm		        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 participants and 
                                        attendees in the Valhalla 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

The Korean Composers Festival is financially assisted by the Korea Foundation and the
Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.