Del Sol Featured Composer-
Hyo-shin Na

Hyo-shin Na
As a two-time recipient of the Korean national Composers Prize (in 1994, a work for piano solo; in 2003, a work for traditional Korean orchestra), Hyo-shin Na has had her music performed world-wide; at festivals and concert series in her native country as well as throughout Europe, North America, Africa, and the rest of Asia. Ms Na has recently been awarded commissions by the Koussevitzky Foundation to write a piece for the San Jose Chamber Orchestra (2002), by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard to write a piece for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (1997), by the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts (2000), Earplay (2003), San Francisco Asian Art Museum (2004), Seoul Traditional Orchestra (2002, 2004, 2005), new Music Works (1999), Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea (2000, 2001), Philharmonia Gaudi Vienna (2000), Citywinds (1998, 2001), Piano Spheres (2001), Life and Dream Singers (2001), Pacific Chamber Symphony (2002), and Music Now (2001), among others. During the 1998-1999 season, the Kronos Quartet commissioned and performed Ms. Na's Song of the Beggars throughout Europe, Africa, Korea, and North America. She was a Djerassi Resident Artist in October, 2000 and in December, 2003.

Ms. Na has lectured on the relationship between her music and traditional Korean music at such varied institutions as the Intercultural Institute of California, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Cruz, Cal State Hayward, City College of San Francisco, the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts, the Ishihara Hall in Osaka, and universities throughout South Korea. She was resident composer at the March, 2000 concerts of the Other Minds Festival (San Francisco), at the Jeonju Sori Festival (Korea), at the Northeast Asia Festival (Japan in 2003, and the Festival Urban + Aboriginal XVI (Germany) where the Barton Wrokshop played her music in Berlin and Leipzig in 2004. Her music has been recorded on the Fontec, Top Arts, and Seoul labels and is published in Korea and Australia. She is the author of Conversations with Kayageum Master Byung-ki Hwang (Pulbit Press). She is currently working on a 60-minute long orchestral piece to be premiered at the opening night of Korea's Jeonju Sori Festival in September, 2005. Her musical studies were at Ewha University (Seoul, Korea), the Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Colorado at Boulder where she received her doctorate.