Contemplative Traditions Music Series: P’ungnyu Strings (Kayagum) | Performing Arts

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Contemplative Traditional Music Series: P’ungnyu Strings (Kayagum)

Enjoy a meditative hour of stringed kayagum set to p’ungnyu, the classical ensemble music of Korean nobility and central theme of our spring/summer performance series. The Korea Society here presents p’ungnyuin its chul-p’ungnyu(stringed-instrument) form. P’ungnyu also refers to a state of leisure when one is elevated from the mundane to better appreciate poetry, music, and companionship.

Park Yoon-suk, founder and president of the twenty-year-old Korean Traditional Music and Dance Institute of New York, opens with a Kayagum sanjo. Before her arrival in the United States, Park spent more than two and a half decades studying kayagum, p’ansori, and dance with many of Korea’s leading artists. Ms. Park won numerous awards and performed over 1,800 concerts across Asia and the United States, including a solo recital at Carnegie Hall. This performance is presented with the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts.

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$5 Members/Members Guest; $10 Guests
Explore Korea card holders attend this program for free with REGISTRATION