Paul Sanho Kim

Conductor, Composer, Violinist

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

for soprano voice and piano (2007)

Premiere: Brevard Music Center, Brevard, North Carolina, 2007. Laura Stelman Jaeger, soprano.

Duration: 4 minutes

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is a poem written in 1888 by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). It refers to an uninhabited island in the Irish lake Lough Gill, where the poet longs for a peaceful existence away from a lackluster city life. The words reflect fulfillment cultivated not just from communion with nature but also through patient, quiet labor.