2009 New York Sanjo Festival and Symposium: Korean Sanjo and Other Improvisational Traditions in Asia

Monday, October 19 Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Elibash Recital Hall and Proshanski Auditorium at CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue btw 34th & 35th Streets, NYC)

2009 New York Sanjo Festival and Symposium: Korean Sanjo and Other Improvisational Traditions in Asia

Monday, October 19

Conference Session 1: 9~11 am

Lecture Concert 1: 11:30am~12:30 pm (Geomungo Sanjo)

Conference Session 2: 1:30~3:30 pm

Lecture Concert 2: 4~5 pm (Daegeum & Ajaeng Sanjo)

Tuesday, October 20

Conference Session 3: 9~11 am

Lecture Concert 3: 11:30am~12:30 pm (Haegeum Sanjo)

Conference Session 4: 1:30~3:30 pm

Lecture Concert 4: 4~5pm (Gayageum Sanjo)

Main Concert: 8~10 pm*

*all events will be held at the Elibash Recital Hall except for 8pm Main Concert at Proshanski Auditorium on October 20.

The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism proudly presents the 2009 New York Sanjo Festival in collaboration with Gugak FM in Seoul and the Music Department of the CUNY Graduate Center. The Festival will include a symposium and concerts with the world’s leading Asian and Korean music scholars and sanjo and sinawi masters of South Korea.

Invited participants include the keynote speaker, Robert Provine (University of Maryland), Stephen Blum (Graduate Center, CUNY), Richard Wolf (Harvard University) and more. Sanjo masters scheduled to perform are Hyun Sook Park (gayageum), Hwan Young Park (daegeum), Tae Baek Lee (ajaeng), Yoon Jeong Heo (geomungo), Sung-A Kim (haegeum) and Chun Man Kim (janggo).

Free admission for all events; conference and lecture concerts are walk in. To receive tickets for the main concert on October 20, please contact the Music Department at CUNY Graduate Center at (212) 817-8607.