Ji Eun Moon
Composer, Pianist, Music Educator
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Biography
Ji Eun Moon is professional composer, pianist, and music educator. Her musical works are inspired by the problems, struggles, and conflicts of reality and the world, and she seeks to express human inner conflicts and social phenomena through her music composition, and music projects. Her music compositions have internationally been performed in (Seoul Arts Center) South Korea, (ABC Hall) Australia, (Milan) Italy, Slovenia, United States, and Mongolia. Prestigious performers have played her works and music projects such as DUO 46, Jean Penney, Richard Zimdars, Wiro Ensemble, James Brandon, Brooklyn College Orchestra, and Oren Marshall. Her music interwines classical contemporary music with elements of vernacular music, experimental techniques of instruments, and improvisational approach to create wide layers of textures and emotional dimensions.
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She received a master’s degree from Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY), and a doctoral degree (DMA) from the University of Georgia in U.S.A. She is a recipient of the U.S. Arts and Sciences Special Talent Visa (O1visa), and has been awarded the Korea-American Scholarship Foundation (KASF) scholarship twice. Her composition for String Trio was selected and performed at the Korea Chamber Music Composition Festival (2023), Seoul Arts Center, South Korea, and her music, Croquis was selected and performed at the University of North Georgia Contemporary Music Composition Conference (2022), USA. Her recent artist-in-residence was at Wildacres Retreat in North Carolina (2022), USA. She won an international composer competition and workshop organized by the Italian Ministry of Culture in Melbourne, Australia, had her work premiered at the ABC Hall, was selected as artist-in-residence by Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA), and won the Composers’ Forum at the Oregon Bach Festival and the 3rd International Young Artists’ Competition hosted by IRCAM. She was selected for the Composers’ Workshop and as a resident artist at the Slovenian International Residency Guest Room Maribor. Her piano solo work, Watching & Chasing was included in the recording album of pianist Richard Zimdars” piano character pieces from four continents”(2015) by Albany Records, USA.
As a solo pianist and piano accompanist, she has performed wide ranges of styles of music with prestigious musicians and chamber groups such as University of Georgia ‘s Wind Ensemble (conductor John Lynch), Opera Theatre of Brooklyn College (con. Richard Barret). She served as a music professor at Mongolian International University in Mongolia and she served as a schoolteacher and music director in South Korea. she currently resides in Quebec and continues on her passion in music.
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Music Projects at Maribor National Hall in Maribor, Slovenia (2013): International Artist in Residence, Guestroom Maribor , partnership Pekarna Magdalenske Mreze Cultural Center
Music Project, Ulan Bator ,Mongolia (2015) affiliated to Mongolian State University of Art and Culture and Mongolia Art Council
