Pianist, singer and educator JEAN SOPHIE KIM has performed as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber player throughout North America, Europe, North Africa. She has performed at the Alcazar Palace in Seville, Weill Recital Hall in New York, Seoul National Arts Center and the Banff Centre in Canada, among others.

She has degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Western Ontario. he has worked as an assistant director and conductor on the creative team for David Lang’s Mile Long Opera in 2018 for the architecture firm Diller, Scofidio and Renfro. She was also choral conductor at the Grammy award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus for over ten years. Her performances with the chorus include Zankel Hall, BAM, the Park Avenue Armory and Avery Fisher Hall. As a singer, she most recently sang with the Acrobat Ensemble and the Lutoslawski String Quartet for Jazz at Lincoln Center. She has performed her two women cabaret show called ‘So… Is this a Date?’ in various cabaret venues in New York City and other states in the US. Jean was awarded a fellowship with Bespoken, a Women in Music Mentorship program and an artist in residence at the Curiosbot Lab in Valencia Spain. She is currently a conductor at the New York Choir Project and a teaching artist at the Barrow Group:NYC Acting Group and Theater Company.

https://jeansophiekim.com/

DREW YOUNG is a New York City based tenor, conductor, and music director. In 2022, he was a member of the American delegation to the Venice Biennale d’Arte, where he presented a staged choral program of newly composed Native American music. He maintains an active performance schedule and serves on the choral staff at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church. He also maintains a private voice studio in Manhattan.

As a conductor, Young serves as Music Directing Fellow under Dr. Vince Peterson with the award-winning ensemble Choral Chameleon and with Empire City Men’s Chorus. His previous appointments include Associate Conductor of Shenandoah Voices of Shenandoah conservatory and Associate Music Director of Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Virginia, where he led a semi-professional chamber choir and founded a guest recital series.

https://drewyoungmusic.com/

New York Women Composers, Inc. was founded by composers Elizabeth Bell, Lucy Coolidge, Ann Callaway, and Robert Friou, Esq., in 1984. It is a New York 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, under the direction of its members. Membership is open to residents of New York State and the greater New York City metropolitan region who are women composers of serious concert music and to those in musical occupations who support the recognition of women composers.

A diverse range of projects has been initiated and supported by New York Women Composers over the years, including many concerts not only in New York but also in Russia, Bulgaria, Canada, and New Mexico, and an exchange concert with the Cincinnati Composers Guild. Early projects included video interviews with member composers broadcast on local-access channels and radio appearances on WNYC radio with host Tim Page.

Several recordings have come about either through partnerships between NYWC composer and performer members or because of grants given to performers by NYWC. Among these are the pianist Elena Ivanina’s recording American Music from the Moscow Autumn Festival (North/South Recordings 1017), including works by Marilyn Bliss, Binnette Lipper, and others (an outgrowth of her live festival performance); Songs by Women (Leonarda Records LE352), performed by Susan Gonzalez, soprano, and Marcia Eckert, pianist, featuring the music of NYWC members Joyce Hope Suskind, Ruth Schonthal, Elizabeth Austin, and Elisenda Fábregas; and the Laurels Project recordings of Nina Assimakopoulos, flutist, the first volume of which, Points of Entry (Capstone Records CPS-8759) includes works by NYWC members Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy, Mary Ann Joyce-Walter, Marilyn Bliss, Beth Anderson, as well as other women composers.

https://newyorkwomencomposers.org/