Dr. Riyehee Hong
Meet the Director of Music & the Arts
Riyehee Hong is Director of Music and the Arts at Philadelphia Cathedral where she oversees all music and art program as well as all the liturgies at the Cathedral and the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hong is much in demand as a lecturer, recitalist, accompanist as well as a choral director and has performed numerous concerts in USA, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, and France including the guest organist for La fête de la Pentecôte de Meaux, France 2007, dedication organ recital at St. Paul Cathedral, LA, and the complete “Art of the Fugue” as a biannual post-meeting concert of American Bach Society in 2002.
The same year, she performed the complete organ works by Maurice Duruflé in a joint concert tour including Stanford University, memorial Church, in commemorating the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
As a scholar, her article Lasceux, Bedos et Le Livre d’orgue de Michigan (1771-1772) has been included in Cahiers d’Artes consacré à Dom François Bedos de Celles, no. 2, 2006, Bordeaux, France and her study and edition of a hitherto unattributed 18th-century manuscript has been accepted for publication by Wayne Leupold Editions. Paper on “New source for French Post-Classical organ registration” is presented at the Keyboard Music and Colonial Philadelphia conference at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA, and a lecture on “Journal de pieces d’orgue – Newly discovered organ music of Guillaume. Lasceux” is presented on Colloque international conferences at Bordeaux, France on March of 2009.
As the founder and director of the LeClair Ensemble, a group focused on 17th and 18th century French chamber music, Dr. Hong directed and performed numerous concerts in America and Europe including Texas premier of Monteclair’s cantata “Pyrame et Thesbi,” Handel’s oratorio, “Il Trionfo del Tempo e della Verità,” and J.S. Bach’s Cantata 201.
Dr. Hong holds a DMA at the Moores School of Music, the University of Houston where she was a lecturer in Music History and Music Theory, and a Master of Music from Boston University where she was the Associate University Organist at Marsh Chapel where the services were broadcasted on WBGH radio. She also has a Master of Divinity from Hanshin University focused on Liturgy and Music, at Bachelor of Theology from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.
