I know the music of Earl Kim – an American composer of Korean descent, pupil of Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch and Roger Sessions and composition teacher at Princeton and Harvard (the epitome, you might say, of the “Academic composer” – mainly through his superb Violin Concerto, a commission of Itzhak Perlman from 1979, which he recorded in 1983 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa (with another of his commissions, the Violin Concerto of Robert Starer):
Robert Starer, Earl Kim: Violin Concertos. Itzhak Perlman, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa 4/83. EMI CDC 7 49328 2 (1988)