Seung-Ah Oh’s Da De Rim Gil at Bang on a Can Marathon Concert

Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 2PM

World Financial Center Winter Garden
(220 Vesey Street, NYC)

Seung-Ah Oh’s Da De Rim Gil at Bang on a Can Marathon Concert

Korean composer, Seung-Ah Oh’s contemporary music piece Da De Rim Gil will be premiered at the Bang on a Can Marathon Concert, part of the River to River Festival. Her piece will be performed by the renowned Dutch musician Slagwerk Den Hagg.

Seung-Ah Oh is recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow endowment, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, winner of the third prize of the Lutoslawski Award and winner of both the first prize and the audience prize of the 3rd Seoul International Competition for Composers. Her music was described as "…exciting… in which you can experience a great variety of timbre and organic development" (Volkskrant, Holland) and "brought Asian sensitivity and meditation" (Plain dealer, Cleveland, US). Ms. Oh's music has been performed in Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain and USA. She has studied at Ewha Woman's University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and The Royal Conservatory of the Hague. Currently, Ms. Oh is a visiting assistant professor of composition at Oberlin conservatory of Music.

Bang on a Can marathon concert is a yearly 12-hour concert which has become one of the most open and exciting music events in the New York City. This year the Marathon brings together more than 150 astounding performers and composers from throughout the world to perform in numerous genres and experimental styles. River to River Festival is the city’s largest free summer arts festival

Admission is free. For more information, please call (718) 852-7755 or visit www.bangonacan.org, www.rivertorivernyc.com, www.seungahoh.org