Hyunchae Kim, kayageum performs Clouds (2020) by Hyo shin Na

Опубликовано: 03 Ноябрь 2024
на канале: OldFirstConcerts

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Hyo-shin Na

Clouds (2020)
Hyunchae Kim, kayageum

Recorded live April 21st 2023 at Old First Concerts, 1751 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94109. For more upcoming concerts please visit oldfirstconcerts.org

The title and inspiration of Clouds came from a poem by Wislawa Szymborska.
I'd have to be really quick
to describe clouds -
a split second's enough
for them to start being something else.
They aren't obliged to vanish when we're gone. They don't have to be seen while sailing on.

Born in Korea in 1984, Hyunchae Kim spent her childhood in Jinju, a small city in the southern part of the country where she began to learn kayageum. She moved to Seoul at the age of fifteen and entered the National Gugak High School where she started her professional training as a musician.
Hyunchae Kim graduated from Seoul National University majoring in kayageum and finished her Masters and Doctorate degrees at Seoul National University, writing her dissertations on kayageum sanjo music. She won first prize in the traditional music competition held at the National Gugak Center in 2009 and the Presidential Prize in the Gurye Kayageum Competition in 2019. She has also been designated as Apprentice of Kayageum Sanjo & Byeongchang,, National Intangible Cultural Asset No.23.