Jungyoon Wie

Starlings

Instrumentation | string quartet and string orchestra

Year | 2025

Duration | 11' 30"

Premiere | Co-commissioned by The Next Festival of Emerging Artists and Summermusik with resident ensemble Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Premiered by the Kronos Quartet and Next Festival of Emerging Artists.

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Text | ​When I go for a walk, sometimes I find a beautiful sight of birds traveling together. Their flocking behavior creates cloud-like shapes that are constanly moving and transforming, which takes my breath away. In Starlings, I try to capture this moment. Three-bar melody is repeated at different speeds throughout the piece by different sections of

the orchestra. This phasing effect imitates the shape of bird travel. Harmonies are formed depending on where each

part is at the melody.