MISE-EN_PLACE (45 Saint Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10026)
(This concert includes a 30-minute intermission.)
Program
Jimmie Leblanc (Canada/Canada): (2017, rev 2024)
Justin Weiss (USA/USA): Beyond Color There is Light (2025)
Jonghee Kang (South Korea/South Korea): Insaninhae(Sea of People) (2025)
Felipe Pinto d’Aguiar (Chile/Chile): REMANSOS (2025)
Oren Boneh (Belgium/USA/Poland): La voix du trait (2024-25)
han geul lee (USA/USA): vestiges (2024)
Ivo Nilsson (Sweden/Sweden): Whereabout 1 (2017)
*The program is subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances. Please note that the listed order is not the concert order.
About the composers
Jimmie Leblanc (Canada/Canada)
As a composer, Jimmie LeBlanc explores musical thought at the intersection of sense and sensation, and his theoretical research focuses on musical analysis, semiotics, and aesthetics. He received third prize at the Lutosławski Award (2008) and the Jules-Léger Prize for New Chamber Music (2009). He is the author of Luigi Nono et les chemins de l’écoute (L’Harmattan, 2010), Xenakis’ Aesthetics: The Paradoxes of a Formalist Intuition (Pendragon Press, 2012), and two chapters in La création musicale au Québec (PUM, 2014). Since 2020, he has been Professor of Composition at the Université de Montréal.
Justin Weiss (USA/USA)
Justin Weiss is a composer and conductor whose work has been recognized with a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the League of Composers/ISCM Prize, the Prix Langage Musical from Les Écoles d’Art de Fontainebleau, and awards and recognitions from institutions including ASCAP, Society of Composers, Inc., and The American Prize. Justin’s music has been performed by ensembles including Quatuor Diotima, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Grossman Ensemble. Justin is the conductor of the contemporary music ensemble Mycelium New Music and received a PhD from the University of Chicago.
Jonghee Kang (South Korea/South Korea)
Jonghee Kang’s music draws on a wide range of extramusical sources, including literature, visual art, and social and cultural contexts. Her recent work is situated within contemporary concert music while reflecting an ongoing engagement with the evolving possibilities of Korean musical heritage. Marked by lyrical gestures and nuanced timbral interplay, her music has been performed in the United States, Europe, and Asia by ensembles and soloists, including Ensemble Set Dam, ECCE Ensemble, Yeree Suh, and Ensemble Wiro. Kang studied at the University of Pittsburgh, New York University, and Yonsei University, and currently teaches music theory and composition at Yonsei University, Kookmin University, Seoul Institute of the Arts, and the University of Seoul.
Felipe Pinto d’Aguiar (Chile/Chile)
Felipe Pinto d’Aguiar (b. 1982, Santiago) is a Chilean composer whose music has been praised for its emotional intensity, refined craftsmanship, and micro-intervallic richness. His work explores texture, resonance, and perception, drawing inspiration from visual arts, literature, and nature. Performed in more than twenty countries, his music has been played by ensembles including the JACK Quartet, Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble, Vertixe Sonora, and Boston Musica Viva. He studied in Santiago, Melbourne, and Boston as a Fulbright Fellow. He is Full Professor and Dean at Universidad Austral de Chile (Valdivia), where he helped establish the School of Music and Sonic Arts.
Oren Boneh (Belgium/USA/Poland)
Oren Boneh’s music is characterized by “constant tension between two opposing poles – one civilized and the other savage” (Le Monde). Its foundation is made up of vastly contrasting characters, ranging from abrasive and mechanical to humorous and supple. His works have been commissioned by renowned ensembles such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Proton Bern, and Alarm Will Sound. He regularly collaborates with artists from other disciplines, notably in La Voix du Trait (2024) with calligrapher Frank Lalou. He has been based in Brussels since 2020. In 2026-27, he is a Fellow at the Villa Medici in Rome.
han geul lee (USA/USA)
Han geul Lee is a South Korean pianist, electroacoustic composer, and multimedia artist. Lee’s creative endeavors explore the dramatic potential of electroacoustic and multimedia environments, often highlighting the relationships between technology and the individual. His works have been performed at international festivals such as the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, and Mise-En Festival, and at venues and institutions including DiMenna Center NYC, Northwestern University, Manhattan School of Music, SUNY-Stony Brook, and University of Nottingham (UK), while also collaborating as a digital instrument-maker on ‘Newtown Odyssey’, a floating opera set on an industrial canal in NYC. Lee is currently pursuing a PhD in music & multimedia composition at Brown University.
Ivo Nilsson (Sweden/Sweden)
Ivo Nilsson was educated at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and at IRCAM. In 1989 he debuted with an Octet premiered by Ensemble L’Itinéraire at Radio France.
His music has been performed by ensembles such as BCMG, Cantus, Either/Or, Reconsil, KNM, Kwartludium, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Orchestrutopica, Slowind and Vertixe Sonora at festivals like the Biennale di Venezia, Chiffren, Chigiana, EMUfest, Enescu, Gaudeamus, Huddersfield, Musica, NYCEMF, Roaring Hoofs, 2 Days and 2 Nights, Sonorities, Spazio Musica, Spectra, Time of music, Ultima, Warsaw Automn and ISCM WMD. In 2017 he was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
