Why I want to talk about mental health in classical music.
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look…
Why being in Korea is important to me.
Hi Friend! 안녕 친구! It’s been a minute since I got to Korea (about five months, actually, wow) and while…
My summer music festival, MusicIC, returns for our ELEVENTH season!
Hello Friends! Looking for something to listen to this weekend? Eleven years ago, I started a summer music festival called,…
I wrote a thing! My essay, DOUBLE FOLDED, is in Cleaver Magazine
Hi Friend! 안녕 친구! The good folks at Cleaver Magazine, Philadephia’s International Literary Magazine, have published my essay, “Double Folded”,…
J.S. Bach Partita No. 3 in E Major for solo violin, BWV 1006 | Gavotte en Rondeau
Hi Friend! 안녕 친구! Here’s me “fiddling” around, messing with ornamentation and mini-improvisations in the Gavotte en Rondeau from J.S. Bach’s…
Chen Yi “Memory” for solo violin (2011)
Hi Friend! 안녕 친구! Here’s Chen Yi’s haunting “Memory” for solo violin (2011). Here, too, is a short note from…
Anthony Cheung, “Character Studies,” No. 1: “DRAMATIS PERSONAE” (2016)
Hi Friend! 안녕 친구! Check out Anthony Cheung’s “Character Studies,” No. 1: “DRAMATIS PERSONAE” (2016). Anthony incorporates some very cool…
Reading in Korean: Shakespeare Sonnet
안녕 친구! Hi Friend! Like a lot of second generation Korean American kids, I learned to speak Korean in the…
My first live Korean radio interview!
안녕 친구! Hi Friend! May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! I thought it’d be a nice way to kick off…
Cherry Blossoms, oh my!
안녕 친구! Hi Friend! YOU GUYS. Cherry blossom season in Korea is freaking out of control beautiful. Nothing I’ve ever…