Move To The United States
Interested in learning more about the musics of other cultures but aware that this would not be possible in Korea, she emigrated in August 1980 to the United States, where she immersed herself in many different world musics. She first attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for one year, then the San Francisco Music and Art Institute for another year, then transferred to Mills College in Oakland, California, where she studied for two years and received an MFA in electronic music and composition in 1985. Her composition instructors included John Adams, Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, David Rosenboom, and Larry Polansky.
While in California, she also studied the Chinese guqin (an ancient 7-stringed zither believed to be related to the geomungo) and Indian bansuri (bamboo flute) from G. S. Sachdev, and began to investigate the possibility of combining her music with the musics of other cultures.
During the 1980s, she regularly attended the New Music America festival, where she met many noted contemporary composers. From approximately 1982 to 1988, she worked as a correspondent, writing over 30 articles about contemporary American composers for Eumak Dong-A, a Korean monthly music magazine published by the Dong-A Daily News
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