Announcements & Press
Commissions, premieres, awards, recordings, and press coverage — the latest updates from the studio and the stage.
SiHyun Uhm's Mnemonic Dust for brass band received an honorable mention at the 2026 Young Composer Initiative, which drew over 80 entries from 10 countries.
"Inhabiting Neural Activity: A Closed-Loop VR System for Generative Sonification and Visualization of Spike Data" selected for a 30-minute presentation slot.
Ensemble Modern and Ensemble TIMF premiered Newton's Cradle at Tongyeong Concert Hall on September 12, 2026, conducted by Michael Wendeberg.
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra named SiHyun Uhm a Teaching Artist for its 2026/27 season Learning programs.
Monthly Review introduced the International Harp Orchestra's 3rd regular concert, themed 'a one-day world music journey without a passport.' SiHyun Uhm conducted.
SiHyun Uhm conducted the release recording of Nick DePinna's 'Sentiments of JUSTICE, HUMANITY, COURAGE, and PEACE' (released July 8, 2026).
SiHyun Uhm was named a national finalist for The American Prize in composition with the Endangered Animal Project.
SiHyun Uhm talks about building self-confidence through ambitious applications, her work as a composer and performing pianist, and her Endangered Animal Project inspired by endangered species and fragile ecosystems.
SiHyun Uhm has been selected by the Korea National Opera to compose a major new one-act chamber opera, scheduled for premiere at the Seoul Arts Center in late 2026.
SiHyun Uhm's Miniscope Multimedia Project (2025, fixed audio and video) was presented in Matinee Concert (a) of the 22nd Biennial Festival of New Music at Florida State University, January 30, 2026.
SiHyun Uhm was named a prize winner of the 1st Aion Digital Art Prize for her ‘Miniscope Multimedia Project,’ among international winners of 2025–2026 digital-art works.
SiHyun Uhm was listed as a member of the Aspen Music Festival and School’s 2026 Composition Class (Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies).
SiHyun Uhm received a $3,000 Emerging Composer Grant from the ARTZenter Institute; her ‘Pulse’ was premiered by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players at Herbst Theatre on January 6, 2026.
The Gilgamesh Foundation featured SiHyun Uhm’s ‘Miniscope Multimedia Project’ as Day 17 of the Gilgamesh International Music Festival 2025.
Korea's Monthly Review covered her September 20–21, 2025 recital at Prugio Art Hall, Seoul — music for a vanishing Earth.
SiHyun Uhm conducted the International Harp Orchestra's 2nd regular concert 'Miracle Again' on September 7, 2025, at Naru Art Center, Seoul.
Cecilia Kang and Angela Park's recording of Echoes of Hahoe — A Masked Reverie appears on Albany Records TROY2005, released September 5, 2025.
Cecilia Kang performed Echoes of Hahoe: A Masked Reverie at ClarinetFest 2025 (July 2025).
Si Hyun Uhm's Miniscope Multimedia Project (installation ID 909) screened at the 50th Anniversary International Computer Music Conference, Boston, June 11–14, 2025.
In this interview, SiHyun Uhm discusses finding her purpose as a composer and multimedia artist, her endangered-animals multimedia concert project, and the qualities — curiosity, resilience, adaptability — that shaped her path.
SiHyun Uhm presented ‘Illuminating Neural Pathways: Transforming Brain Activity into Generative Audio-Visual Experiences’ at MOXsonic 2025.
Eun-Hee Park's recording of Broken Waltz and the Piano Suite Circus appears on Navona Records NV6719 'Korean Soundscapes,' released March 7, 2025.
An in-depth interview covering her path from Seoul to UCLA, the miniscope neuroscience project, and her endangered-animals multimedia work.
SiHyun Uhm was named a BER Composer Fellow for 2025–27 (Cycle 21: Solo Harp) at the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music.
A Yamaha business case study features SiHyun Uhm composing a classical work with Yamaha’s AFC Enhance/Image immersive audio system, premiered at Yamaha Ginza Studio in Tokyo.
The International Contemporary Ensemble’s Civic Fellows chamber concert program included SiHyun Uhm’s ‘Dancing in the Rain Forest’ (2018).
The Seattle Festival Orchestra performed Parrot in the Rainforest on March 9–10, 2024, in 'Our Place in This World' with guest conductor Yuchi Chou.
Co-authored paper presented at the 155th AES Convention (New York, 2023): 'Transcending Boundaries: Unleashing Musical Expression through Immersive Sound Image and Real-time Interactive System'.
George Rothman conducted Riverside Symphony in the celebrated New York premiere of 'Ladybug in the Room' at Alice Tully Hall.
The Marine Chamber Orchestra gave the world premiere of SiHyun Uhm’s ‘Yearning’ on April 16, 2023, at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall in Alexandria, Virginia, conducted by Col. Jason K. Fettig.
The youngest prizewinner of the 14th ARKO competition — SiHyun Uhm (23) — heard her 'Parrot in the Rainforest' premiered on Feb 1, 2023, at Seoul Arts Center.
Interview on composing Parrot in the Rainforest and a decade of composing in America.
SiHyun Uhm was listed among the artists selected from the 2023 Call for Works at the Performing Media Festival.
SiHyun Uhm was one of three 2023 finalists in the Emory University Symphony Orchestra’s commission call for BIPOC female composers.
Arts Council Korea named 23-year-old Eom Sihyun the youngest selected composer of the 14th ARKO Korean Contemporary Music Festival; ‘Parrot in the Rainforest’ was performed by the Korean Symphony Orchestra under Chi-yong Jung.
Parrot in the Rainforest (열대 우림 속 앵무새) won the 2022 ARKO 14th Korean Creative Music Festival composition competition.
The harp method book 'My Angel Mini Harp Junior' (마이엔젤 미니하프 주니어), co-authored by SiHyun Uhm, was published in September 2022.
SiHyun Uhm won the U.S. Marine Band’s inaugural ‘Call for Scores’ with ‘Yearning for String Orchestra,’ to be premiered by the Marine Chamber Orchestra.
Yamaha's AFC Experiment Concert at Yamaha Ginza Studio premiered SiHyun Uhm's String Quartet No. 2 “For AFC System” — a work fusing string quartet with spatial-audio technology.
enhakē's album 'Child's Play' (MSR Classics, released May 18, 2022) includes SiHyun Uhm's Circus Suite.
Harpist Shim So-jeong and composer Eom Sihyun co-published the mini-harp method book ‘My Angel Mini Harp’ through Sewang Music Publishing.
Eastman School of Music’s virtual concert series celebrating Asian female composers featured SiHyun Uhm in Concert 4 (‘Giving a Voice’).
SiHyun Uhm was a 2022 Blueprint Bridge Fellow, developing a new project with National Sawdust through Juilliard’s mentorship fellowship for composers.
SiHyun Uhm was listed among the 2022 Composition Contest winners of the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival.
SiHyun Uhm was a mentee in the NATS 2022–23 Mentoring Program for Composers, mentored by Nkeiru Okoye; her commissioned song was premiered by the Cincinnati Song Initiative.
91Classical spotlights five emerging composers at the Nashville Symphony Composer Lab, including SiHyun Uhm's 'Ladybug in the Room.'
The album 'Intimacy of Creativity 2018: World Premiere Concert 2' (released June 7, 2019) includes a separate recording of 'Warning from Murky Darkness' by Wenting Kang (viola) and Yael Manor (piano).
SiHyun Uhm received a prize at the PyeongChang Olympic Celebration (Culture Olympiad) for Dance of Passion (February 2019).
Yonhap News announced Yeoro's 2nd creative art song night (Jan 5, 2019), featuring songs by 12 young composers including SiHyun Uhm.
SiHyun Uhm's Apex of Longing took 2nd place (tie) at the final round of the 1st Future Symphony International Composition Competition on October 8, 2018.
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