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“A virtuoso exploration of the technical and sonorous possibilities of three high voices.”
-Elizabeth Roche, Daily Telegraph

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“A work of iridescent freshness.”
-Barry Witherden, BBC Music Magazine

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“Outbursts of rhythmic energy”
-The Irish Times

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“it had fantasy, colour and drive”
-Nottingham evening post

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The National Flute Association

NFA has commissioned Sungji Hong to write a new work for the Young Artist Competition for the 2020 convention in Dallas.

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Lorelei Ensemble performs Hong's Missa Lumen de Lumine for their 2019-2020 tour in Wenham (MA), Cambridge (MA), Ithaca (NY), Lancaster (PA), Hesston (KS), Sheridan (WY), Greeley (CO), and Haverford (PA).

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Premiere in Marseille, France.
8:30 pm | 8 November 2019

Ensemble Creations will perform O sacrum convivium for SATB a cappella at Eglise de la tour D'Aigues in Marseille, France.

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Premiere in Knoxville (TN)/USA.
12:00 pm | 28 July 2019

Sarah K Watts will perform Exevalen for bass clarinet during the ClarinetFest 2019 at the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Premiere in Boston (MA)/USA.
7:00 pm | 28 June 2019
Deus Ex Musica presents world-premiere performances of new settings of psalms by nine composers from around the world. Hong's Awake up, my glory will be first perfomred by Margaret Lias (Mezzo Sop.) and Brady Millican (Pf) at the Old South Church in Boston.

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Premiere in Fort Worth (TX)/USA.

2:00 pm | 19 January 2019

The music is written for the dance Agonia in collaboration with choreographer Ilana Morgan, flutist Elizabeth McNutt, and pianist Anatolia Ioannides to be performed at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

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