GAMIN: Korean Contemporary-Traditional Music Recital
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 7:30PM
Bennett Media Studio
(723 Washington Street, NYC)
Bennett Media Studio brings the special concert of Korean contemporary – traditional music. In this concert, Gamin Hyosun Kang will connect the old and new with her piri (Korean double reed instrument) meeting the sophisticated sounds from new experimental languages of contemporary music.
Gamin Hyosun Kang is a yisuja of the Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for piri and daechita, and one of the most celebrated piri and taepyeongso (Korean traditional oboe family) performers in Korea. She is a Ph.D. candidate in traditional music at Seoul National University. Kang has received numerous awards and prizes including the grand prize from Nangye Gugak Competition, Dong-A Gugak Competition, and the New Artist Award from the Korean Art Critics Association. From 2001 to 2010, she was a member and assistant principal player of the Contemporary Gukak Orchestra at the National Gukak Center. Kang produces interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with international artists, and expands her musical realm to multi-complex art projects in new formality. She was a recipient of residency program grant from the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and has toured for lecture concerts at Harvard University, Dartmouth University, and University of Pennsylvania.
Tickets are free. For more information call 646-485-0920 or visit http://www.bennettmediastudio.com.