FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Beijing
New Music Ensemble contact:
Shu-Chun
Lai, Executive Director (+86)
1391-095-4049, shuchunlai@gmail.com
Beijing
New
Music
Ensemble
Announces
Collaborative
Concerts
with
Seoul-based
Composer Cecilia Kim
Korean
Music Landscape—Tradition and Presence
Featuring
Video
Art, guzheng, flute and raditional
Korean
Musicians
Nov
7
(Sat.),
2pm at
Ullens
Center for Contemporary Arts
Nov
8
(Sun.), 8pm at Peng Hao Theater
The
Beijing New Music Ensemble (BNME) continues its series at the Ullens
Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), and at Peng Hao Theater
presenting multimedia concerts in collaboration with Seoul-based
composer Cecilia Kim,
four
guest artists from South Korea,
guzheng player Chang Jing, and flutist Bruce Gremo.
The
concert program at UCCA on November 7 includes two of Kim's works
from a cycle based on real footage of interviews with survivors of
Japanese World War II “Comfort Women” camps. These are performed
by members of BNME, along with the video art of visual designer
Jae-Jean Chung. Another piece, based on Kim's extended stage work
Earth Songs,
brings together a shamanic percussionist (Jong-han Jo) a traditional
pansori
singer (Eun-young Lee), and other members of BNME to evoke a tightly
woven cross-traditional fabric. Finally, a piece highlighting the
gayageum,
alongside a rare collaboration with Chinese guzheng, a close cousin
of the gayageum,
provides a unique glimpse into the Sino-Korean musical relationship.
At
Peng Hao Theater
on
November 8, selections of the above pieces will be repeated,
alongside four extended solos and duets by the traditional
instrumentalists.
Program
I
Nov.
7th,
2pm, UCCA
Ja-Yai
Kim Flying
Butterfly
for flute, cello, and piano
Cecilia
Heejeong Kim Excerpts from the Music-dance Theater “Earth Songs”
PART
II. HwangDae-Sa
&
PART IV. Sams
and Birth
(2009)
*China Premiere
pansori
singer
Eun-young Lee / percussion and male vocal:
Jong-hun
Jo / flute: Bruce Gremo
1944
& Denial
for
Violin, Clarinet and Piano
(2009)
Young
Ja Lee Pelerinage
de l’Ame
for Violin, Cello, and Piano
Cecilia
Heejeong Kim Gongmu-Doha-Ga
for
Guzheng, Gayageum, Recorded Sound and Film (2007) *China
Premiere
guzheng:
Chang Jing/ gayageum:
Kyung-so Park
Postcard
from the Camp: Songs for the War-time Comfort Women
for
String Quartet (Amplified) and Film
(2003)
viola:
Kang Wenting with BNME members
Venue:
Auditorium, UCCA
Address:
No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Dashanzi 798 Art District
Entrance
to UCCA is 15 RMB. There is no additional charge for the concert.
For
further inquires about the venue and direction, please contact
Ms.
Zhang Chuan,
Department of Education & Public Programs, UCCA
(+86
10) 8610‐8701
Program
II
Nov
8th,,
8pm, Peng Hao Theater
Chung-bae
(
prayer
to God)
--
An Excerpt from Shaman Gut from East Coast
Pansori:
Eun-young Lee / Janggo: Jong-hun Jo
Cecilia
Heejeong Kim Gongmu-Doha-Ga
for Guzheng, Gayageum, Recorded Sound and Film (2007)
guzheng:
Chang Jing/ gayageum:
Kyung-so Park
San
Pa
for Solo Janggo
(Shaman Music)
Cecilia
Heejeong Kim Excerpts from the Music-dance Theater “Earth Songs”
Part
II.
HwangDae-Sa
&
Part
IV. Sams
and Birth
(2009)
pansori
singer:
Eun-young Lee / percussion and male vocal:
Jong-hun
Jo / flute: Bruce Gremo
---Intermission---
Byung-ki
Hwang Sound
of the Night
--4
Movements for Gayageum and Janggo
Gayaguem:
Kyung-so Park/Janggo: Jong-hun Jo
Juksung-Ga--
An
Aria from the Korean Traditional Music Theater ‘Chunhyang-Ga’
Cecilia
Heejeong Kim Postcard
from the Camp: Songs for the War-time Comfort Women
for
String Quartet (Amplified) and Film
(2003)
viola:
Kang Wenting with BNME members
Address:
No. 35 Dongmianhua Hutong, Jiaodaokou Nandajie, Dongcheng District,
Beijing China
Map:
http://www.penghaoren.com/cn/contact.asp
Direction:
At
the cross road of Ping-An Dadao and Kuan Jie, you should turn north
to Kuan Jie. When you meet the first traffic light, cross the street
to the west side, you will see Dongmianhua Hutong. Go straight about
200 meters, when you see the sign “PengHao”. you have arrived the
theatre. You can always call the theater for direction at 64006472.
Tickets
are at 80RMB.
Seats
are limited.
For
reservation please contact-- BNME Executive
Director: Shu-Chun LAI (Ms.)
at 13910954049
For
ticket
purchase
please contact --Ms.
Jennifer
Liang
at
Peng Hao Theater 64006472
or 13601004120.
About
the Beijing New Music Ensemble
Please
visit www.beijingnewmusic.org
About
the guest artists
Eun-young
Lee
(Pansori
Singing),
graduated
from prestigious Seoul National College of Arts,
is one of most young Pansori singer hopeful for the Korean
traditional music theater. In addition to performing in the
traditional theaters, Ms. Lee has been experimenting Pansori sound
with electronic music, visual arts and contemporary music.
Jong-hun
Jo
(Korean
Traditional Percussion)
is the founder and the leader of ‘Gung Gung’, the young shaman
music performing group in Korea. He is the national preservation
successor of the Shaman Performance of the East Coast Region. With
advanced degrees from the Seoul National College of Arts, he has been
invited to perform in many international stages.
Kyung-so
Park（Gayageum）is
one of most prestigious and active gayageum players in Korea. As a
member of gayageum ensemble AURA and a fusion-electronic band
Oriental Express, Ms. Park has toured to Hong Kong, New Zealand and
Europe. Recently she has released a solo album in corporation with
electronic music ‘Cosmo Breeze.’
Jae-jean
Chung (Visual
Design)
is
one of few visual designers specialized in theater productions in
Korea. Chung is a researcher at the Image Information Laboratory and
is finishing a Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging
Science, Multimedia & Film at Chung-Ang University.
Cecilia
Heejeong Kim
(Composer) is
one of most innovative composers, active directors, producers and
educators in South
Korea.
She received her M.M. and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania
then moved to Boston to do post-doctoral study at Harvard in 1996.
Kim’s music has been played world-wide including France, New
Zealand, Switzerland, Hungary, China, Hong Kong, Thailand and the
U.S,and
broadcasted in WNYC in New York, CCTV in China & CBS in Canada.
Currently Kim is an associate professor in Music & New media at
SangMyung University in Seoul, Korea.
Chang
Jing(Guzheng)
1991 - 1995 Studied in China conservatory of music;
1995
Began to work at China National Song & Dance Ensemble;
She
has been performed world –wide including: 1996
–1997 three contemporary music festivals in France with French
National Symphony Orchestra;
2001 contemporary music festival in Lyon, invited by National Music
Create Center of France;
2008 Performed in Beijing
Olympic Games 2008,
and
recorded
several
concerts by Stavanger Symphonic Orchestra, Norway
in 2005 , released the album<Beauty
of zheng>
Bruce
Gremo (Flute)
specializes in extended technique and improvisation formats using the
modified flutes, the Japanese Shakuhachi, the Chinese Xun and others.
He has performed as soloist in venues ranging from Lincoln Center and
the Royal Albert Hall to Steim (Amsterdam) and Roulette (NYC). He now
resides in Beijing where he works as a composer and flutist with
various new music ensembles.
