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Monday, November 16, 2026 - 6 pm @ The Forum at Columbia University
605 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027
hosted by Tania León
In partnership with The Harlem Chamber Players.
Composers Now is thrilled to unveil a new commission through our Cheswatyr Commissions program, an ongoing collaboration with the Cheswatyr Foundation to foster new works that honor both legacy and innovation.
Composers Now presents the world premiere of a major new commission by Korean American composer, vocalist and sound artist Bora Yoon. Known for creating immersive audiovisual soundscapes that bring together digital devices, voice and instruments from across cultures and historical periods, Yoon’s new multidisciplinary work will feature a 12-piece chamber ensemble, traditional Korean percussion, electronics and a vocalist-narrator. The program will also include a work by Yoon’s project mentor, acclaimed composer and sound artist Miya Masaoka, Gabriella Smith, and Alyssa Weinberg.
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Bora Yoon is a Korean-American composer, vocalist, and sound artist who conjures audiovisual soundscapes using digital devices, voice, and instruments from a variety of cultures and historical centuries to formulate a storytelling thru music, movement and sound. Featured on the front-page of the Wall-Street Journal, NPR, and the National Endowment for the Arts podcast for her use of unusual instruments and everyday found objects as music, she evokes what George Lewis describes as “a kind of sonic memory garden”–using voice, viola, Tibetan singing bowls, Bible pages, bike bells, turntable, walkie-talkies, chimes, water, and electronics. As a performer/composer, Yoon has presented her work at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, BAM, Visiones Sonoras (Mexico), Festival of World Cultures (Poland), Nam Jun Paik Museum (South Korea), PROTOTYPE Opera Theater Now Festival, Singapore Arts Festival — and served as a resident artist at EMPAC, The Hermitage, and TED Fellows. She has been commissioned new works for So Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, Cabrillo Orchestra, Voices of Ascension Chorus ; awarded by the New York Foundation of the Arts (Music/Sound), Asian American Arts Alliance; Princeton University, Fromm Foundation at Harvard Music, Barlow Endowment, & Opera America.
