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Composer: Yiming Jia
Piano: Foo Jen Wong
Cello: Clara Cho

Performance date: Oct. 25th 2025
Performance location: OPERA America's National Opera Center

Yiming Jia （USA）

Yiming Jia (b. 2006) is a composer and clarinetist that aims to connect with performers and listeners through his pieces deriving from his background and experiences. He has studied under Kelley Sheehan, Wang Lu and Yiming Wu and has received awards such as the National YoungArts Winner, the ASCAP Morton Gould Finalist, the Tribeca Young Composer Competition Honorable Mention, the NFMC National Junior Composers Contest 2nd Place Winner, the National Young Composers Challenge Finalist, the BACF Creative Artist Winner, the American Prize winner, etc. He has also attended the Juilliard Summer Composition Program over the summer of 2024. Yiming is currently pursuing a dual degree studying music composition and computer science at Northwestern University.

Jetlag *Commissioned by the MusicON Festival

After my senior trip, I arrived home at 9 AM after a 12 hour long flight. I had barely slept on the plane despite the 9 hour delay beforehand, and I just couldn’t resist taking a nap after lying on my bed. That nap ended up being 7 hours. Over the next few days, my sleep schedule was completely messed up, and I would feel drowsy in the middle of the day not being able to do anything productive. I wanted to establish that feeling of desperately attempting to stay awake in this piece through two different themes that alternate throughout. One representing the mind trying to stay awake and clear, and the other representing the dream state.