Faculty Accomplishments

Jihea Hong-Park

Jihea Hong-Park currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Piano at Brigham Young University. She recently adjudicated the 2020-2021 MTNA Eastern Division Piano Competition in both the Senior Piano Performance and Senior Piano Duet divisions.

As an avid workshop facilitator, Ms. HongPark has presented at the International Teaching Artist Conference, College Music Society’s National Conferences, Korea Arts & Culture Education Service, and New York City Department of Education.

Recently, Jihea Hong-Park’s proposal entitled “A Year of Experimentation: Piano Studio as a Place of Belonging, Engagement, and Ownership” has been accepted at the 2021 National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP). Her workshop will be presented during the Main Conference held July 2831, 2021, as well as at the Independent Music Teachers Preconference on July 13, 2021.

Clémence Destribois

Clémence Destribois grew up in Normandy, France, where she studied trumpet, organ, voice, harmony (part-writing), and music analysis in the conservatories of Le Havre, Rouen, and Caen. She earned a Diplôme d’Etat in music education in France, as well as a bachelor’s degree in organ performance and a master’s degree in musicology at BYU. Dr. Destribois received her Ph.D. in musicology in London (Royal Holloway), researching connections between theory and practice in seventeenth-century Italy with an emphasis on ensemble music.

Dr. Destribois published an article entitled “From French Romances to Music for Benjamin Franklin: An Examination of the d’Artois Collection from the House of the Countess of Artois, Wife of King Charles X of France”. It is an article on a music manuscript collection preserved at the BYU music special collection. The article was published in the OctoberDecember 2020 issue of Fontes artis musicae, an international journal for music librarians and musicologists.

Christian Asplund

Christian Asplund is a Canadian-American composer-performer (on viola, harmonium, piano, electronics) based in Utah, where he is a professor at Brigham Young University. He cofounded Seattle Experimental Opera, which has produced seven of his operas.

He has performed with such musicians as Christian Wolff, Eyvind Kang, Larry Polansky, Daniel Good, Francois Houle, Michael Bisio, Robert Reigle, Tom Baker, Greg Campbell, Jessica Lurie, Amy Denio, Gino Robair, and Phil Gelb in a variety of venues and recordings in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.

His scores are published by Frog Peak Music. He appears on CDs on Tzadik, Present Sounds, Sparkling Beatnik, Maritime Fist Gleeclub, and Comprovise Records.

Dr. Asplund’s jazz trio, We Free Kings, has been rehearsing and recording/filming their own compositions, and occasionally those of Thelonious Monk. These have been published on YouTube. Click the video above to see some of the recordings.

Dr. Asplund has also been working on a project since 1990 called The Brick Church Hymnal, continues with Volume 5. This volume is focusing on setting verses from the Book of Mormon. Scores can be viewed by clicking the sheet music to the right.