Jay Alan Yim

Associate Professor, Composition

jaymar@northwestern.edu
847-467-2030

Jay Alan Yim
Background

PhD, Harvard University
Recent Activity 

Co-coordinator, composition program. Listed in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Jay Alan Yim is an internationally recognized composer, with a Kennedy Center/Friedheim award, three BMI and two ASCAP awards, Tanglewood and Aspen fellowships, Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and three Illinois Arts Council fellowships. Other honors include an appointment as a composer/fellow (1995-96) for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Yim has received commissions from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Korean Broadcast Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Nederlands Radio Filharmonisch, Residentie Orkest Den Haag, London Sinfonietta, Nieuw Ensemble, Ensemble SurPlus, New Music Consort, Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, Yefim Bronfman, Ian Pace, and Frances-Marie Uitti. Festival performances for him include concerts at Tanglewood, Almeida, ISCM World Music Days, Darmstadt, Wien Modern, Gaudeamus, Ars Musica, Sendai, Huddersfield, ICMC.  Yim has been recorded by both the Arditti Quartet and Duo Contexto and is co-founder of the "localStyle" digital media collaborative, with museum installations in USA and Europe. For more information, visit his personal web site.