Jaebong Rho creates listening experiences that begin after the final sound. His music builds open narratives where structural clarity and interpretive space coexist. It invites listeners to connect what they hear to their own lived experience, translating pressing social and psychological questions into rigorous forms. His recent works reflect these thematic concerns. The orchestral work "i want to go home." (2023/24) engages with East Asia’s aging society and dementia, revealing an experience where the familiar and the unfamiliar intersect through repetition and structure. diorama (2024/25) focuses on the post-truth era, exploring how contrasting perceptions of reality lead to social fracture. In chamber music, agitpropiece (2025) responds to the declaration of martial law in South Korea in 2024, while crowns with clowns (2025) reflects on the nature of power. In stone (2025), Rho examines the mechanisms of mob psychology by linking historical forms of collective violence to their present day echoes. Rather than simply illustrating a topic, he builds musical structures in which instability, rupture, or fragile coherence can be felt directly in the act of listening. Rho served as the Composer-in-Residence for the Korean National Symphony Orchestra (2024-25), premiering multiple commissioned works. His music has been featured by ensembles including the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and the IEMA-Ensemble, with an upcoming premiere by Ensemble Écoute. He participated in the Lucerne Festival Academy Composer Seminar, working with Dieter Ammann and Unsuk Chin, and won the Remus Georgescu International Music Festival Competition, where he worked with Beat Furrer. Most recently, he has been named a 2026 Composition Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School. He received two artist grants from the Busan Cultural Foundation, which supported his portrait recitals in 2021 and 2023, and won the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra Commissioning Competition. More recently, his work has been honored with the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the ARTZenter Emerging Composer Completion Grant, and First Prize in the Ensemble Écoute Composition Competition. Rho holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Pusan National University. He is pursuing a Master of Music at the Yale School of Music, where he studies with Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Theofanidis, Katherine Balch, and David Lang.