The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience

Not sure what to wear? Where to park? When to clap? Check out our Concert Guide. The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience (THHOE) doesn’t remix genres—it invents a new one. Equal parts symphony, dance party, and underground club night, THHOE fuses the structural rigor of classical with the raw energy of hip-hop, creating a new genre of live performance. Led by composer/pianist JooWan Kim, the project features MCs, a lyric soprano, and a full orchestra of winds, brass, strings, piano, and drums. Every note is fully scored and original— weaving canons, fugues, and symphonic textures into rapid-fire rhymes, rap cyphers, and hip-hop dance circles that spill into the audience. The result feels like live film music or street opera: dramatic, immersive, and completely unexpected. Pitchfork calls it “textures swimming through the sound…like the world’s fastest ping-pong game” and Huffington Post claims it as “the cutting edge of hip-hop.” THHOE has earned international attention from BBC, NPR, PBS, Wall Street Journal, ESPN, and more. This is not hip-hop with strings. It’s not classical with beats. It’s the birth of a new sound. Made possible by the WW Symphony Guest Composer/Artist Fund - Underrepresented Voices Supported in part by a grant from #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1773245980502_31162 .sqs-gallery-block-grid .sqs-gallery-design-grid { margin-right: -20px; } #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1773245980502_31162 .sqs-gallery-block-grid .sqs-gallery-design-grid-slide .margin-wrapper { margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; } SUBSCRIBE #block-831c27fbfc245effdf40 {--sqs-block-content-flex: 0; } SINGLE TICKETS #block-56ce542c7df471b29fef {--sqs-block-content-flex: 0; } Concert Snapshots In hip-hop culture, an MC is a rapper—someone who writes and performs rhymed verses. Instead of rehearsing in a traditional way, the MCs often develop their lines in a cypher, a freestyle circle where ideas flow collaboratively. The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience features turf dancing, a form of…