composer, pianist, music educator
Endless persisting with fevered dreaming Juro Kim Feliz (part 4 of 5) Baritone Danlie Acebuque in a still from with fevered dreaming, filmed at Tindahan Grocery (Richmond, BC) with cinematography by Rachel Chen and direction by Solara Thanh Bình Đặng. N.B. This is the fourth of a series of five essays around the release of [...]
Putting such a title to this rather hefty update feels appropriate. As much as a huge surge of productivity washed over the past months, the next three months will leave me in a financial lull. The amount of investment we artists put in our work and practice can sometimes be unreasonable or nonsensical, but we [...]
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 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 [...]
Nomadic Sound Worlds finally launches today! It's a four-part blog/podcast series I'm producing this year under the Canadian Music Centre Library Residency. Check out the "Nomadic Sound Worlds" section of this website for more details! https://www.instagram.com/p/BlI-Okin3wc/
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 [...]
Thanks to the Canadian Music Centre for awarding me this residency! Watch out for upcoming blog posts on Canadian contemporary music along the lines of immigration. This is exciting! From the Canadian Music Centre: CMC Ontario Region is pleased to announce the 2018 Library Residency Artists: Juro Kim Feliz and Lisa Conway. The CMC library and audio archive [...]
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 [...]
As there was a good amount of projects happening since the New Music on the Bayou festival, I haven't managed to post any updates at all. I'll try to make up for it and sum up everything in this post. Check 'em out (especially the one at the bottom of the list)! (1) Toronto Creative Music [...]
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