Juro Kim Feliz is a composer, pianist, and writer who writes music that “thrives in the sustained tension, like the kinetic energy emanating from the corners of a frame, the opposing forces holding up a house” (Musicworks, 2022). Grounding in sound worlds, environments, and socio-political landscapes of Southeast Asia, his acoustic and electroacoustic concert music articulates spatialities that converge, diverge, collide, and reside within postcolonial Global South positioning and diasporic movements.
Outside music creation, Feliz produced the Filipino radio talk show “Sigaw ng Bayan” (2015-2017) at CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal and conceived Nomadic Sound Worlds (2018-2019), a three-part miniseries on Canadian contemporary music through the lens of global migration. Feliz served as composer-in-residence of New Music Concerts from 2022 to 2023 and has received a “Highly Commended” distinction for his work Kinalugarán at the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2024 in Switzerland.
Following a Musicworks magazine article he published in 2024 (featuring Belgian-Congolese artist C-drík and Indonesian duo Sarana), a 2025 MacDowell residency jumpstarts the creation of a new audio essay with composed chamber music and multichannel fixed media. Building on a series that unravels idealizations and detachments from homelands, Feliz interrogates passports, the privilege of global mobility, and inequities within the Global South with this new musical work alongside texts and recorded interviews with Philippine music educator Anna Patrica Rodriguez-Carranza.
At MacDowell, he gathered field recordings, recorded piano and vocals, and processed sounds, conducted interviews, and assembled an audio essay script for his mixed quartet and multichannel fixed media project Kinatalí-an. Commissioned by Italy-based Ensemble Codec for a 2026 digital video release, this musical work featured Cedrik Fermont, Patricia Rodriguez-Carranza, and Azadeh Tajpour as they reflected on passports and global mobility.
He also created mind maps and started research on the Philippine jeepney to jumpstart the creation of four pieces included in the “Jeepney Ecosystem” project, commissioned by an ensemble led by Nina Janßen-Deinzer for European premieres throughout late 2026 and 2027. Feliz also wrote a magazine article on the Japanese koto featuring Michiyo Yagi, Sarah Pagé, and Hiroko Nagai for Musicworks in its Spring 2025 issue.
