Jaehyuck Choi (born October 31, 1994)[1] is a South Korean composer and conductor of classical music, based in New York and Seoul.
[5] He attended various summer festivals and workshops including: Tanglewood BUTI, Yellow Barn, Mozarteum Sommer Akademie, Fontainebleau Summer Academy, Grafenegg Festival,[6][7] and Seoul Philharmonic's Master Class Series, with Pacal Dusapin, Péter Eötvös,[8] Tristan Murail, York Höller, and Unsuk Chin.
Choi attended Grafenegg Festival's "INK STILL WET"[7] program as a both composer and conductor under the director of Matthias Pintscher with the Tonkünstler-Orchesters Niederösterreich.
Choi names Ludwig van Beethoven, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Beat Furrer[12] among others, as 19th, 20th, 21st-century composers of special importance for him.
He won the SCI Young Composers Award (2015),[13][14] Morton Gould Award (2013, 2015), MTNA Composition Competition (2013), National YoungArts Foundation (2013), Pikes Peak International Young Composers Competition (2012), Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival (2013) and TIMF call for score (2013).