Category: Performing Arts

Accompanying the opening of Highlights, this meditative short performance of six-stringed komungo celebrates p’ungnyu, the classical ensemble music of Korean nobility. As a philosophy, p’ungnyu refers to a state of leisure where one celebrates arts and companionship. The evening’s performer, Park Min-ji, graces the audience with her komungo skills. Park graduated from Hanyang University in Korea, was honored at the Dong-A Korean Traditional Music Concours in 2009, and took first in the National Traditional Performing Arts Competition in 2006. She also took first at the 2010 World Korean Traditional Performing Arts Competition in New York and was a member and soloist with the Seoul Metropolitan Youth Traditional Music Orchestra. She toured Atlanta, San Francisco, and Hawaii with the Korean Traditional Music Orchestra of Hanyang University in 2010. This series is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

6 PM  

Contemplative Traditions Music Series: P’ungnyu Strings (Komungo)

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

LIVE HOUSE KOREA is made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.
 

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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.

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

Thursday, June 30, 2011

6:30PM LIVE Performance

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

with

Park Yoon-suk

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

LIVE HOUSE KOREA is made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.

Enjoy a meditative performance of changgo, a traditional hour-glass drum, adapted for p’ungnyu, the classical ensemble music of Korean nobility and central theme of The Korea Society’s 2011 traditional music series. P’ungnyu also refers to an elevated state of leisure in which one can better appreciate poetry, music, and companionship.

Percussionist Lee Chun-seung performs a solo Suljanggu, followed by a Samulnori and Binari featuring three additional percussion instruments, the kkwaengguari, buk, and jing, and finishes with Modeumbuk. Lee appeared at the 2002 World Cup Opening Ceremony and on the KBS Open Concert series. He has performed in Russia, Japan, China, and the United States, and is director and conductor of the acclaimed New York-based, non-profit Korean Traditional Marching Band. This series is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

6:30PM LIVE Performance

Contemplative Traditional Music Series:

P’ungnyu Percussion (Changgo)

with

Lee Chun-seung

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

LIVE HOUSE KOREA is made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.
 

As the world turns to Korea for the November G20 Summit, The Korea Society hosts a musical salute reflecting the journey to Seoul: royal city, global city. Returning to The Korea Society stage, young kayagŭm great Rami Seo, who has played with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, explores world rhythms. Seo “journeys” from New York’s jazzy 57th Street to the hills of Andalusia, from Israel to the Mongol steppe. Joined by guests Deep Singh (tabla), Mi-hye Yoon (synthesizer), and Joonsam Lee (contrabass), Seo “arrives” at Korea through a northern port, her nod to her hopes for unification, and concludes the journey in magical, musical Seoul, as it welcomes the G20 leaders.

Thursday, November 4
6:00PM Refreshments
6:30PM Performance

Global Music Korea: Flourishes
Saluting the Seoul G20 Summit

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

$10 (Members/Students); $20 (Guests)
(Walk-in registration will incur an additional charge of $5)

For more information or to register for the program, please call 212-759-7525, ext. 355.

The Korea Society welcomes young gifted greats from New York’s famed Juilliard School in its 2010-2011 Young Visions, Young Voices series. Classical violinist Brian Bak opens the series with a solo performance of Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, Ysaye’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 27, and Paganini’s Caprice No. 24.

Bak is recipient of the C.V. Starr and Samsung Scholarships and studies with Professor Hyo Kang, founding artistic director of International Sejong Soloists. Bak has appeared as a featured soloist with symphonies nationwide.

Thursday, October 21

The Korea Society

950 Third Avenue@57th Street, 8th Floor

The movements of Korea’s classical dance tradition reflect the essential rhythms of life in Korea. The exuberant yott’aryongch’um (Taffy Peddler Dance) walks audiences through the bustling marketplaces of Korea, while meditative, deeply symbolic performances such as the hwahyonmu (Lotus Dance) and sungmu (Monk’s Dance) explore the country’s deep Buddhist roots. From the gentle, gliding grace of the opening chaech’onmu (Choson Court Dance) to the thunderous drumming of the closing p’unggo, the dancers and musicians of the Chae Hyang Soon Dance Company display the strength and energy of Korean tradition.

Dynamic Korea: Dance & Song
Performances by the Chae Hyang Soon Dance Company

Sunday, 19 September || 3PM
Queens Theatre in the Park, New York, NY

Tuesday, 21 September || 1:30PM
St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH

Friday, 24 September || 8PM
Alabama Asian Cultures Foundation/Virginia Samford Theatre, Birmingham, AL

Sunday, 26 September || 4PM
Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Tuesday, 28 September || 7:30PM
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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DISCOUNT for TKS members.

The Korea Society kicks off a rich autumn season of performing arts with percussionist Vongku Pak on traditional drum, or changgu, Eddy Jo Martinez on guitar, and Jorge Mesa on bass. This scintillating trio will perform a sizzling hour of rhythms, beats, and blues to mark this fall’s G20 leaders summit in Seoul. Come celebrate Korea—a crossroads of music and meeting place for world leaders—with this soulful summit salute. Pak opens with Sulganggo, a Korean hour-glass drum solo to “call the world to Korea,” followed by a blend of kutkǒri, ch’ilch’ae, and jajinmori rhythms.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

“…It would speak to the seasons.” Join us for a rich evening of time circling through the elegant sounds of Rami Seo’s kayagǔm. Powerful at times, passive at others, Ms. Seo’s stringed wonder takes us from spring through summer, to autumn’s passing and wintry embrace…and back again to spring. Relax amid the contemplative sounds and relish the rich history of the kayagǔm.

Thursday, May 20, 2010
6:15 PM Check-in
6:30 PM Recital

“If This Kayagŭm Could Talk…”
Kayagŭm Recital

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

$10 for members and students; $20 for nonmembers
(Walk-in registration will incur an additional charge of $5)

For more information or to register for the program, please contact Heewon Kim or 212-759-7525, ext. 355.

If this kayagǔm could talk…

If this kayagǔm could talk
It might tell tales…
Of kings that ruled
In gilded courts,
Bent peasants
Out in the fields,
A nameless ki-saeng
With her private audience,
A famed musician
Whose song is legend;

Or it might tell
Of untried dreams,
And uncounted hours,
Unspoken truths,
And unshed tears…

If this kayagǔm could talk
You just might hear
The unstrung words
To my heart’s impetuous song;
Within each measure
My unrelenting pulse;
My palpable Joy
Resonating…
Beneath my weeping fingertips.

-Michelle C. Yoon

LIVE HOUSE KOREA is made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.