Christian Yom (b. 2005) is a Korean American composer, pianist, and improviser from NY, and will be based in Cambridge, MA this fall. Starting composition in 2022, Christian’s music draws from an ever-increasing musical and extra-musical palette, among them the synthesis of traditional Korean folk and Western music idioms, the drawing of expression from unique timbrel and color combination, the vast structural constructions of Beethoven, the note-by-note intention of Takemitsu and Ravel, the harmony and drive of jazz, and even the delight of Korean food. All of which are laced into his tightly knit and ever-expanding body of work.

Praised for imaginative orchestration, poeticism, and emotional resonance, during his first year of composing under Dr. Paul Frucht, Christian has received a 2023 Morton Gould Young Composer Award, a 2023 YoungArts Finalist in Classical Music, the 2023 Flute New Music Consortium Call for Score Winner, a 2022 National Young Composers Challenge Ensemble winner, the 2022 National 1st place winner in MTNA’s Senior Composition Competition, and has worked with renowned artists Emily Levin, principal harpist of Dallas Symphony, flutist and influencer Katie Althen, Jeremias Sergiana Velasquez, and more. His works have been performed at Steinmetz Hall by the Orlando Philharmonic, the New World Center in Miami by the NuDeco Ensemble, at the National Arts Club, the Ridgefield Playhouse. Recent projects includes a commission to orchestrate “A Concerto for My Family” by 2023 bassist Ranaan Meyer for chamber orchestra, and a commission from the Harvard Brattle Street Chamber Players for a performance of a new work in Spring 2024. His primary mentors have been Paul Frucht, John Corigliano, and he is now studying with Efstratios Minakakis.