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Sun-Mi Hong

Sun-Mi Hong is a drummer, composer, improviser, and bandleader whose Amsterdam-based work spans a quintet, orchestra, and collaborative projects.

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Career Overview

About Sun-Mi Hong

Edition Records identifies Hong as a South Korean drummer and composer based in Amsterdam. Its artist biography traces the formation of her quintet and a writing practice that gives structure to collective improvisation without fixing every detail in advance.[2]

Hong’s artist-run catalog widens that leader identity beyond the quintet. It documents a numbered album sequence alongside BIDA Orchestra and REFLEX: Invisible Ropes, moving from small-group writing to larger and collaborative ensemble forms.[1][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, drummer, and composer

Sun-Mi Hong Quintet

Formed 2017

Edition’s biography presents the quintet as Hong’s central leader group and the setting for her numbered album sequence.[2][3]

Co-leader, drummer, and composer

BIDA Orchestra

The artist catalog separates BIDA Orchestra from Hong’s quintet, documenting a larger collective setting with its own release.[1][3]

Collaborator, drummer, and composer

REFLEX: Invisible Ropes

REFLEX adds another distinct ensemble and recording path within Hong’s artist-authorized catalog of improvised projects.[3]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

A Self-Strewn Portrait

Quintet leader, drummer, and composer

The artist-authorized edition documents an early chapter of Hong’s quintet writing with full streaming and personnel credits.[3]

Release details

2022 · Edition Records

Third Page: Resonance

Quintet leader, drummer, and composer

The third numbered leader album develops Hong’s structured-improvisation approach through her Amsterdam-based quintet.[2][3]

Release details

2025 · Edition Records

Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest

Quintet leader, drummer, and composer

The fourth numbered album continues Hong’s quintet catalog while extending its themes of belonging, home, and collective sound.[2][3]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official Bandcamp catalog

Stream Hong’s quintet, orchestra, and collaborative releases with complete artist credits.

Edition Records artist page

Open the label-authorized biography and listening path for Hong’s recent quintet albums.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Thu, Nov 5, 8:00 PM

SUN MI HONG, LUKE MARANTZ, BEN VAN GELDER, MICHAEL MOORE & ZACK LOBER

Splendor Amsterdam · Amsterdam

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Sat, Dec 5, 8:00 PM

John Goldsby Quartet

King Georg · Cologne

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Evidence-Based Connections

Related Musician Guides

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official artist site and project calendar

    Sun-Mi Hong

  2. [2] Label biography and quintet history

    Edition Records

  3. [3] Artist-authorized release catalog

    Sun-Mi Hong