Younje Cho & Renu Savant
Younje Cho and Renu Savant.
The David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center at Pocantico
Price: Free, registration required
The Composers Now and Asian Cultural Council (ACC) collaborative exchange program at The Pocantico Center pairs a distinguished composer with a visual or performing artist to develop a presentation that engages both the eyes and ears.
The fall 2025 performance will feature Composers Now Collaborative Creative Residency recipient Younje Cho with ACC New York Fellowship recipient Renu Savant. The duo will present excerpts from the work they created during their two-week Pocantico residency and discuss their individual styles and process of creative partnership.
This event will be followed by a reception in the DR Center Gallery, now showing Shen Wei: Still/Moving.
Presented in partnership with the RBF Culpeper Arts & Culture program, Composers Now, and the Asian Cultural Council.
Younje Cho
Composers Now Collaborative Creative Resident
Younje Cho is a composer and eco-sonic artist whose work draws on a deep philosophy of the respectful balance between humans, nature, and all living beings, as well as the essence of existence. Blending traditional composition with sonic experimentation, he crafts sound worlds of clarity, warmth, and depth, turning diverse cultural experiences into spaces for healing, reflection, and resonance.
Renu Savant
Asian Cultural Council New York Fellow
Indian filmmaker Renu Savant's fiction, documentary, and essay films engage personal and public memory narratives, lyrical approaches, and extended durations. Her awards include two Indian National Film Awards. Her films have shown internationally, including at the Berlinale, DokLeipzig, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Kochi Biennale, and Yokohama Triennale. She was a BAFTA Breakthrough India honoree (2020) and Berlin Artist-in-Residence (2024).