Composer & Conductor Jae-Hyuck Choi

South Korean composer/conductor Jaehyuck Choi is a graduate of The Juilliard School and the 1st prize winner of the 72nd Concours de Genève Composition Prize. Choi quickly distinguished himself as one of the most prominent young composer and conductor of his generation.

Choi’s music is being actively performed in the United States, South Korea, as well as in Europe with the Ensemble InterContemporain, Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich, Dal Niente Ensemble, Zodiac Trio, Ditto Ensemble, TIMF Ensemble, etc., with commissions scheduled until 2021. Recently, his music was praised as “…much sense of expressivity, color, movement, motion, and a beautiful way of how to display energy” by Matthias Pintscher on Choi's Clarinet Concerto, Nocturne III (2017).

As a conductor, Choi made his international debut at the Lucerne Festival in 2018, conducting Stockhausen's <GRUPPEN> for three orchestras and three conductors with Sir Simon Rattle, Ducan Ward, and with the joint orchestra of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy.

Choi's Korean debut was made by conducting the Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra in 2019, conducting works by Gounod, Wagner, Berlioz, and Liszt.

Since 2015, Choi founded a contemporary ensemble, Ensemble Blank, in Korea which he leads both as composer and conductor in trending music scenes and venues in Korea.

Choi's instructors include Matthias Pintscher, Peter Eötvös, Unsuk Chin, Samuel Adler, Whitman Brown, and Jung-sun Park.

Jaehyuck, a lover of paintings, movies and driving, currently resides in New York and Seoul.