Lucia Hwong is an American composer and instrumentalist. She has created music for theater, film, television, dance and the concert stage.
Hwong was born in Hawaii and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her grandmother was a grande dame of Chinese opera and her mother is international actress Lisa Lu. Her first public performance was in concert, playing the pipa, an ancient Chinese lute, at the age of six. She studied ethnomusicology, theater and dance at UCLA and Columbia University from 1978 to 1982, graduating with a B.A., Cum Laude, in Ethnomusicology.
She has chaired philanthropic events for organizations including the Women's Project, American Theatre Wing, Asia Society and Parrish Art Museum and has been on committees such as Southampton Hospital.
Her music for theater includes the scores for the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of M. Butterfly and Tony-nominated Golden Child; as well as David Henry Hwang's New York Shakespeare Festival presentations of Sound and Beauty and The Dance and the Railroad and the Obie Award-winner FOB. She composed the music for Iago and Venus Voodoo at Lincoln Center.
[Gil]
Modeun geo-shi meomchun chae shi-ganeun tto joyong-hi heureune
Kara-anjdeon gaseumi ttotashi sumi kkwahng makhine na hollo beoryeojin chae
Sarajineun apeummajeodo michidorogashwii-unde
Neo eobshi kyeondineun i shi-gando kkeunna-get-ji eonjenganeun
[Yoon do hyun]
Someday da ijhyeojyeo-gal sarang keuri-un nae sarang eonjena himdeul-keman
han geudaeyeo
Someday nae kayeopseun nae sarang keuri-un nae sarang eonjena
haengbo-khaeya hae nal tteonaseo
[Gary]
Eonjena buranhaet-deon sarangye kyedan
Keu eotteon- sunkanedo nae soneul noh-ji anhat-deon ni-ga hangsang neomu
komapda
Ijen nal tteonaseo haengbo-khaera jebal nawah chikeun sajin-cheoreom useora
maennal
Seulpeu-go himdeun shi-ganye yeonsok tadeu-reo-ganeun mamsok buranhan du
son hokdokhan ibyeolye kusok
Apeu-go amul-ko ttotashi apaoneun gotongye banbok himdeulda cheongmal
michidorok
[Gil]
Sarajineun apeummajeodo michidorogashwii-unde
Neo eobshi kyeondineun i shi-gando kkeunna-get-ji eonjenganeun
[Yoon do hyun]
Someday da ijhyeojyeo-gal sarang keuri-un nae sarang eonjena himdeul-keman
han geudae
Someday nae kayeopseun nae sarang keuri-un nae sarang eonjena
haengbo-khaeya hae nal tteonaseo
Nal tteonaseo nal tteonaseo nal tteonaseo
Someday da ijhyeojyeo-gal sarang keuri-un nae sarang eonjena himdeul-keman
han geudae
Someday nae kayeopseun nae sarang keuri-un nae sarang eonjena
haengbo-khaeya hae nal tteonaseo
Nal tteonaseo nal tteonaseo nal tteonaseo nal tteonaseo
[Gary]
Chigeum nae-ga hal su i-nneun geon ni-ga haengbokhagil baraneun geot idaero
shi-gani heu-lleo sang-cheodeu-ri amuneun geot
Neol bureu-go shipeodo keujeo ibeul damuneun geot
Kkeu-teom-neun huhwehdeul-kwah kyesok ssa-uneun geot eokjiro
sseonaeryeo-ganeun ibyeolye maldeul
Hanasshik jiwo-ganeun nae chinan nal deurireohke meong-hani ikyeonae boneun
haruharu
Nae jeonbu nae hyimang nae sarang neo neo neo