91Classical Features Nashville Symphony Composer Lab

91Classical's Colleen Wheelahan interviewed the five emerging composers selected for the Nashville Symphony Composer Lab, where their works were performed by a professional orchestra.

SiHyun Uhm, then a student at the Eastman School of Music, presented Ladybug in the Room — based on a cold evening in her dorm room, portraying her futile attempts at containing a stray ladybug to keep it warm, with running musical lines and a slamming moment of capture at the end.

She described her music as "very energetic and rhythmic," noting a particular fondness for "cool harmonies."

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