NWEAMO 2027
Pulsing Otherworldliness
February 27, 28, 2027 San Diego, CA
2027 NWEAMO Artists
COMPOSERS
Dojin Jang – Kinetic Fractures for Acoustic & Electronic Ensemble
Maile Pacumio – Euphonos on Canvas
Seoyun Yeo – GangGangsullae
Ethan Resnik – Studzinski at Sundown
Jee Seo – On Fever, On Fever II
PERFORMERS
Joseph Martin Waters aka Jozefius
Christian Gonzales
Jae Eun Jung
Cho-Hyun Park
Daniel Grab – cello
Elena Tarritu – Flute
Michael Gerdes – Conductor
Just 128 days 21 hours 33 minutes 45 seconds until the NWEAMO festival.
PERFORMERS
Jeongmin Son is a Korean piri performer and researcher specializing in traditional and contemporary music for Korean wind instruments.
She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Seoul National University and has developed an active career as a soloist, ensemble musician, educator, and researcher.
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Jae Eun Jung is a composer whose work is mainly rooted in both the United States and Korea. Jung has been recognized internationally, including being named a finalist in the BNMIC Competition and the Renée B. Fisher Composer Awards, and receiving the 2011 IAWM PazyLu Prize. She has served as a resident fellow at the Yun Isang Haus in Berlin, and has been invited to various venues across the United States, Korea, the United Kingdom, Germany, Romania, Lithuania, Hong Kong, and elsewhere.
Flutist Elena Yarritu enjoys an active career as a soloist, chamber musician, conductor, and teacher. She holds an MM from Yale University School of Music
and a DMA from Stony Brook University.
She has studied with many distinguished flutists and musicians in the U.S. and abroad in Europe.
As a private cello teacher in San Diego, Daniel coaches beginners through college graduates.
His students have prominent roles in youth orchestras throughout San Diego County, have won competitions including the San Diego Cello Society’s Young Cellist Competition and the MTAC’s VOCE, perform as soloists with local orchestras, and have earned merit scholarships to such programs as Crossroads School, Center Stage Strings, Aspen Music Festival, and university music programs throughout the country.
Christian Gonzales is establishing himself as one of San Diego’s finest young violinists and violin teachers. A graduate of Juilliard and UCLA, Gonzales has performed throughout the United States internationally in Mexico, Canada, and Spain.
He is also the owner of the Christian Gonzales Violin Studio LLC.
Dr. Cho-Hyun Park is an internationally acclaimed pianist whose musical journey began in Korea. She pursued her studies at Seoul National University, working with several distinguished professors. Among them, her artistic direction was most profoundly shaped by HaeSun Paik, a celebrated pianist who studied in the United States from her youth and won
both the Queen Elizabeth and Tchaikovsky Competitions.
Michael Gerdes is Director of Orchestras at San Diego State University, where he conducts the San Diego State Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, and Opera Orchestra.
He earned his Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Selected by the San Diego Union-Tribune as one of three “Faces to Watch in Classical Music” during his first year as Director of Orchestras, Gerdes is focused on creating a thriving orchestral community at San Diego State University.
