composer, pianist, music educator
It was the last week of December 2025. Many horoscopes of the day unanimously told me to channel my inner turmoil elsewhere for self-care. However, this particular one got my senses tingling. One renegade write-up told me to go ahead and make people disappointed. No one enables bad behaviour more than a single piece of [...]
Me doing live readings during the world premiere of Liham in 2024 at New York. Photo: Sidney Boquiren. I stood up and faced the audience. The four physical books I brought at the sidelines now weighed heavily on me. My face couldn’t figure out whether it should give onlookers a scowl or a cold, hard [...]
(This is a long-delayed Part 2 of a series of updates. Click HERE to read Part 1.) The year 2023 was the most exciting time for me in many ways — exciting in that I totally didn't had the time to sit back and post updates! I intended to post this after the world premiere [...]
I sat down to eat breakfast (at 3 in the afternoon, no less!) and saw a Facebook post from someone I look up to. They mused about people who saw us but refused to look at us. Far from random strangers on streets who look past us, it was about arts scenes, communities, and people [...]
It always takes some time before I post updates about what's currently on right now. Things have been rather hectic since the past 9-10 months, and this is quite unprecedented in my composer life. I guess change is happening—I think of writer Eva Hoffman who, upon having culture shock over the Krakow she knew decades [...]
I am very privileged to write about two things among the latest updates in my work. First things first. It has been official—New Music Concerts launched its inaugural composer-in-residence program, and I feel very honoured to be their first composer resident for 2022. I am commissioned to write two works: one for a flute octet [...]
I haven't been posting news for months due to projects, but I'm finally back on track! It definitely won't be a short update, but I'll try to be quick about it: (1) Time Moves, Straightfoward... Commissioned for the second time by the Art Song Collaborative Project (Toronto), I created an "art song" (in quotes, for [...]
While I'm excited to share this, fresh out of the oven, I honestly find it difficult to just treat this merely as a new piece I wrote. The interwoven stories of transnationalism, displacement, the simulation of home, and the Canadian government revoking Amy Hull's Indian status (with thousands of others) aren't just ordinary things to talk [...]
The Art Song Collaborative Project (spearheaded by Alondra Vega-zaldivar) is set to premiere a new art song of mine on July 14 (Toronto) and 15 (London, ON). A bunch of composers with immigrant backgrounds were selected to contribute one song, with the culmination of a music drama named "Coming Home" emerging from such a compilation. Check [...]
Juro Kim Feliz 