Sungji Hong is an internationally recognized and award-winning composer whose works have been performed, commissioned, and broadcast throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. Her output spans orchestral, choral, chamber, solo, and electroacoustic music, and her creative voice has been described by the American Academy of Arts and Letters as “at times complex and at times straightforward,” with “precise timbres that unfold dramatic, virtuoso gestures, iridescent colors, and vivid, atmospheric auras.”

Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, and the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has received commissions from the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition at the University of Chicago, the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, the National Flute Association, the Texas Flute Society, the Furman University Clarinet Ensemble, the MATA Festival, Lorelei Ensemble, the Tongyeong International Music Festival, the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Her Missa Lumen de Lumine, recorded on the ECM New Series and performed by Trio Mediaeval, received international critical acclaim and reached the Top Ten on both the Billboard Classical and iTunes Classical charts. Her music has been recorded on labels including ECM, Dutton, Atoll, and Universal Music Korea.

Her music has been performed in more than 48 countries and 258 cities worldwide by leading orchestras and ensembles, including the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Jenaer Philharmonie, Oviedo Filarmonia, Radio Television of Serbia Symphony Orchestra, and the Slovenian National Theatre Opera and Ballet Orchestra, as well as the Arditti String Quartet, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Ensemble Linea, Ensemble Accroche Note, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and Ensemble TIMF.

Born in Seoul, Sungji Hong studied composition with Kyungsun Suh at Hanyang University, Robert Saxton and Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and Nicola LeFanu at the University of York. Since 2018, she has taught composition at the University of North Texas College of Music, where she currently serves as Associate Professor of Composition. Her works are published by Tetractys Publishing.