Posted on Apr 4, 2003

Hilary Tann,
professor of music, is to be in Seoul, South
Korea, for the April 8 performance of her piece,
From Afar, in the grand opening concert
of the 2003 International Women in Music Festival (http://www.ifw.or.kr/eng_home.htm).
Tann will travel to the festival to rehearse with conductor Apo Hsu and the KBS
Orchestra and to pursue her interest in East Asian Music. From Afar was commissioned by Meet the
Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music USA
grant and premiered October 1996 by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. It
received its European premiere by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in January
2000. Tann is to be in Japan
this fall as the faculty member for the Term Abroad program at Kansai Gaidai.