Solo-and-Duo — Dongryul Lee, Composer

Solo and Duo Works

THE CI(R)CADIAN THREE (2024-25)

for violin and piano

Duration: ca. 35 minutes
Commissioned by Benjamin Sung and David Kalhous for their Extension Project
Skowronski Music Hall, Loyola University Chicago October 31 2025

Outer Rings: I and IV / Inner Rings: II and III
This work may be performed as a complete piece, in two groups corresponding to the outer and inner rings, or with each movement performed independently

A FINITE ISLAND IN THE INFINITE OCEAN (2020)
for solo violin
Duration: ca. 15 minutes

Commissioned by and Dedicated to Miranda Cuckson
2021 Fromm Players at Harvard Co-curated by Miranda Cuckson and Anne Shreffler
April 16, 2021

LE TOMBEAU DE HARVEY (2018, rev. 2019)

for solo piano
Duration: ca. 15 minutes

Third Prize, The First Bartók World Competition - Composition, Budapest, Hungary, 2018
The Callithumpian Consort, Ariel Mo, piano
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, US, January 18, 2022

GOETHE’S GARDEN (2015-16)

for two pianos tuned in a quarter-tone apart
Duration: ca. 36 minutes

The 21st Century Piano Commission Award, 2017
Hanah Choi and Hanqian Zhu, piano
18th Annual 21st Century Piano Competition Concert, February 10, 2017, 7:30 pm
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELLER (2022-23, rev. 2024-25)

for solo piano
Duration: ca. 38 minutes

Arial Mo, piano
April 29, 2024 at 8:00 PM (ET), Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA

UNSMEARED, LIKE A BODILESS HORN (2021)

for horn and cello
Duration: ca. 7 minutes

Commissioned by the Center for Contemporary Composition at the University of Chicago
Concert Stream: Miniatures – Members of the Grossman Ensemble
Matthew Oliphant, horn, Hannah Collins, cello
March 12, 2021

LESSONS ON LIGHT AND DARKNESS (2021, rev. 2025)

for solo piano
Duration: ca. 8 minutes

Premiere of the revised version: Ensemble TIMF, DaHyun Chung, piano
Korean Composers’ Night, Ilshin Hall, Seoul, South Korea, April 24, 2026
Premiered of the original version: Eugenia Jeong
Concert Stream – SOUND/SITES, A co-presentation of UChicago Presents and the Department of Music, November 11, 2021

IN THIS STILLNESS THE WORLD REVERBERATES (2024)

for solo sheng
Duration: ca. 15 minutes

THE PROJECT SEED 2025 Recording Session
Li-Chin Li, sheng

SYZYGY (2016)

for horn and cello
Duration: ca. 19 minutes

Selected for and Commissioned by for A Cello Loft Commission, 2015
Nicolee Kuester, Horn, Eric Moore, violoncello
Center for New Music, San Francisco, US
Pacific Union College, Napa County, US, April 2019

ENTANGLEMENT (2013-14)

for saxophone and piano
Duration: ca. 17 minutes

Hyung-Ryoul Kim, alto saxophone, Tomoko Ono, piano
Live recording, Music Auditorium, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, US, April 2014

LOTUS ON DENSE ORBIT (2011)

for piano and computer-generated sound (tape)
Duration: ca. 13 minutes

Brendan White, piano
Ciminelli Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, US, Oct 2011

an air oscillates the earth bells for three days (2011-12)

for two guitars tuned a quarter-tone apart
Duration: ca. 16 minutes

Hanson Ensemble Prize, Eastman School of Music
Studio recording session, Sungmin Shin: Guitar 1 and 2

DONGRYUL LEE