My work engages interdisciplinarity collaboration, multimedia, improvisation, and relationships between genre, performer, and audience. It has been awarded with the College Music Society Dennis Kam Student Composition Award, the Stipe Society of Creative Scholars Fellowship, and other awards and honors. I am interested in exploring the place of art in contemporary society, reactionary movements towards the past, and varied manifestations of musical community through my work.

My artistic practice encompasses notated composition, conducting, and conducted/free improvisation. Below, find recent works representative of my body of work. The “” symbol denotes that a score is available — please inquire via emailing me at hello@solomonkim.me.

LARGE ENSEMBLE MUSIC (9+)

2022 – When Tigers Smoked Tobacco Pipes / orchestra

2022 – The Meeting / electroacoustic improvisation [revised version forthcoming]
‣ workshopped in April 2022 with What the Folk?! Devising Workshop, Tom Zhang, and the Pinkies.

SOLO/CHAMBER MUSIC (1-9 performers)

2023 Rip Currents / clarinet, soprano, electronics

2023 – HEALER – SELF – ABSORBER – LOVER / clarinet, soprano, electronics [under revision]

2022 – Heat Lightning / flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
premiered by the ECS Composers’ Ensemble at Emory Composers’ Society Chamber Connections.

2022 – Destroy the Reified Abstract Concrete Superstructure of Doom! / bari sax, electric guitar
written for and premiered by Hypercube.

2022 – Let’s Go Back (to How Things Were Before) / solo clarinet /
winner, Dennis Kam Composition Award.
premiered at the Atlantic Music Festival, 2022 season.

2022 Octet / flute, clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones /
premiered in April 2022 by the Emory Chamber Winds.

2021 – resolves to… / clarinet, cello, and piano /
premiered in 2021 at the Emory Composers’ Society Chamber Connections concert.

2021 – Whisper — Breeze / string quintet
premiered in 2021 at the Heifetz Hootenanny July 31, 2021 concert.

2019 – Two Worlds / small SATB ensemble / audio
premiered in 2019 by the American School in Japan Vocal Jazz Ensemble

MULTIMEDIA

2021 – Fragmented / fixed stereo audio / audio

2021Simplexity for TEDxEmory / fixed stereo audio and video / video

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