This week the Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival opens. It’s run by the Daegu Young Musicians’ Society and looks great! It starts on Wednesday, June 23rd and runs until Friday. The venue is Daegu Citizens’ Hall. Here is this year’s program:———- Tickets Single concert: 20,000won 1 day pass: 40,000won 3 day pass: 100,000won Easiest way … Continue reading
There is an interesting little, and somewhat hidden, concert happening soon. It will celebrate Buddha’s birthday, and offers a chance to enjoy new music from one of Korea’s composers who aren’t well known abroad. I think it is a just-show-up-and-see-what-happens sort of concert. >>> Chung-Ang University professor emeritus and Buddhist music composer Pak Beom-hun (박범훈) will hold … Continue reading
Hero, traitor, iconoclast, prisoner, exile: Enigmatic Korean composer Isang Yun has been many things. Almost two decades after his death, a German-made film goes searching for the truth behind the musician. Watch the trailer here Maria Stodtmeier’s recent documentary, “In Between: Isang Yun in North and South Korea,” investigates the many misconceptions surrounding the enigmatic composer and … Continue reading
Young composer Kim Eunsung won the Mendelssohn composers competition back in December. His winning piece is called “mobile Elemente” and is for piano trio. This hasn’t gotten (almost) any coverage in English (or Korean it seems!), so I thought I would mention it. Originally from Pohang, a city in the south-east of Korea, Kim studied … Continue reading
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Digital Buddha, Friday, January 31st. In celebration of the Met’s landmark exhibition Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom, Met Museum Presents DIGITAL BUDDHA, a multimedia performance video with Jin Hi Kim (Komungo) and Gerry Hemingway (Percussion). Continue reading
“예전에는 공연 도중에 나가는 사람도 있었어요. 해를 거듭하면서 이제 조금씩 고정관객들이 생기고 있죠. 물론 정명훈 선생님의 말러 공연과는 비교도 할 수 없지만요.(웃음)” Classical music composer Chin Unsuk talks about growing Korean audiences and the importance of the contemporary music series Ars Nova with the Seoul Philharmonic. From a recent article by reporter Lee Hye-won for … Continue reading
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