David Geffen Hall Opening Gala (Wed. 10/26)
The New York Philharmonic invited the Juilliard Preparatory Division chorus to participate in their David Geffen Hall Opening Gala! We sang Make Our Garden Grow with Renée Fleming and Brian Stokes Mitchell as soloists, the NYPhil orchestra, and the NYPhil chorus. Wow, the newly renovated hall was beautiful, and it’s crazy that my name is on the NYPhil program!
Special thanks to NYPhil and the Juilliard School administration who put together this wonderful opportunity.
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2223/journey-dgh-opening-gala
Hope & Harmony chorus concert
For the breast cancer awareness month, Tuckahoe High School performed a Hope and Harmony Concert on October 25th! I enjoy singing in a chorus, and it was heartwarming to sing for a cause.
Tuckahoe High School
Hope and Harmony
Concert
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Tuckahoe High School Football Field
The American Prize - Winner!
updated Sept. 20, 2022
“YURI LEE of Tuckahoe NY is the 2022 winner of The American Prize in Composition, in the high school Instrumental Chamber Music Division, for her work entitled Nyarlock Tango. Yuri was selected from applications reviewed recently from all across the United States.”
Thank you American Prize, and special thanks to Luna Composition Lab and the International Contemporary Ensemble for the opportunity to work on this piece!
https://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2022/09/national-winners-composers-instrumental.html?m=1
previously… Feb. 28, 2022
The American Prize Semi-Finalist
End of the Tunnel and Nyarlock Tango was selected as a semi-finalist of the Instrumental Chamber Music composition High School Division! I am excited to get to share End of the Tunnel, a piece I poured my heart into for 8 months, to more people.
https://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2022/01/semi-finalists-composers-instrumental.html?m=1
NYSSMA Call-for-Creators Results
The New York State School Music Association announced the Call-for-Creators winners!
“With only 75 minutes for the entire Young Composers Concert, our judges could only select 11 compositions out of the 100+ pieces submitted. With so many submissions this year, the decisions were very difficult for the judges to reach. It is important to remember that there were many outstanding compositions which were not included in the program.”
I am very honored to be one of the winners, and I can’t wait to hear Frome at the NYSSMA Winer Conference!
American Voices concert
Celebrating American Life and Culture, the Tuckahoe Middle and High School performed the American Voices concert! Turkey Trot was featured! This is my composition that was inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s quote and written after extensive research of turkey calls. (I never knew there were so many different kinds of calls.)
“Bald Eagle...is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly...[he] is too lazy to fish for himself. [While a turkey is] a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America...He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage.”
— Ben Franklin
Carson Scholars 2022 Ceremony
Sun. May 22nd, 2022
I was invited to the Carson Scholars 2022 ceremony, where a total of about 200 new and re-recognized students came together celebrate. I got a medal and a cape!
Thank you very much to the Carson Scholars Fund for this wonderful scholarship opportunity.
Juilliard Pre-College Composition Competition Winner!
The Juilliard School holds a Pre-College Composition Competition every 2 years for the composition majors’ works to be reviewed by outside judges. I was announced as this year’s winner today!! I am honored to be selected. And thank you to the brightest, most creative fellow composers for their support and enthusiasm.
NYCC Composium
The National Young Composers Challenge composium was an amazing experience, with master classes, inspiring peers, a magnificent concert hall, and an awesome recording of my piece! We were also interviewed after the concert, which was fun.
Special thanks to Maestro Christopher Wilkins, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Alex Burtzos, Stephen Goldman, Dan Crozier, Keith Lay, and Barbara Lombard.
NYO-USA 2022
I can still remember vividly when I got to play with NYO2 a few summers ago at their event open to anyone who wanted to join. It was such an amazing experience that I hoped to return to the community. Well, this summer I will get to write music for the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America as one of the two apprentice composers!
Into the Woods: the THS musical!
The Tuckahoe Middle/High School will perform Into the Woods on March 10-12th!
I am the concertmaster of the pit orchestra, and I am grateful to be able to work with Mr. and Mrs. duChateau, Broadway conductor/cellist and Broadway pianist!
