Geomungo, Korean and Contemporary Music Discoveries

"Baudouin de Jaer & Joonyoung Kim"

16 > 25.11.2022 @ Korean Cultural Center & many more 

▶Free / Reservation required 

Discover the sounds of the Geomungo, a representative and indigenous string instrument from Korea. Two astonishing musicians, Joonyoung Kim, a Geomungo player, and Baudouin de Jaer, a music composer will take us to an experimental musical world enriched by Geomungo. It will be a broad and intriguing repertoire that includes a mixture of contemporary to traditional sounds.

Kim Joonyoung

Kim Joonyoung is a Geomungo player and multidisciplinary artist. He graduated from Seoul National University(PhD) specializing in Korean Traditional music. As a Geomungo player, he discovers the depth and philosophy behind Korean traditional music while working with the most recent contemporary music as well. Furthermore, Kim’s practice is broad which includes writing, directing music series, and facilitating workshops in several countries such as Germany, U.S., Hungary, and Mexico. He served as the concertmaster of the Contemporary Gugak Orchestra from the National Gugak Center and currently works as an artistic director of the project group GeoinArtLab. Kim is the winner of the 24th National Gugak Competition (Grand Prize).

Baudouin de Jaer

Baudouin de Jaer is a Belgian composer born in Aalst on March 9, 1962. He studied composition in Liège with Philippe Boesmans, Frederic Rzewski and Henri Pousseur. Since 1986, he has written several compositions including Lucy (1993) for orchestra, the opera La Forêt, Le Désert, L’Argent (Ce qui vit en nous) (2017). Since 1991, he has opened spaces for musical creations open to everyone with or without prior musical knowledge. From 2004 he became interested in Salpuri dance and Korean instruments. At Lion Dance (2014), commissioned by the Korean National Orchestra, will follow a cycle of solo pieces for the geomungo low-pitched six-string Korean zither, including the opera in the geomungo style Byeongchang The Sparkling Dance of the Salmon Swarm (2020) and Five Traces (2021). In 2010, the choreographer Kyung-a Ryu and Baudouin de Jaer together founded NOODIK productions (creations of dance/visual art and contemporary music). Baudouin de Jaer is a member of the Forum de la création musicale of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

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16.11.2022/ 14h / Lecture and Concert

Namur Concert Hall-Grand Manège

Rue Rogier 82, 5000 Namur

Free

17.11.2022/ 14h / Lecture and Concert

L’ENTRELA’/Centre Culturel d’Evere

Rue de Paris 43, 1140 Evere Rue de Paris 43, 1140 Evere

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Free

18.11.2022 / 11h / Lecture and Concert

Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Mons

Rue de Nimy 7, 7000 Mons

Free

21.11.2022/ 14h / Lecture and Concert

Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles-Auditorium Jongen

Rue du Chêne 17, 1000 Bruxelles

Free

21.11.2022/ 20h / Concert <Gravitation>

Korean Cultural Center

Rue de la Régence 4, 1000 Bruxelles

Free / Please click here for reservation

19h Baudouin de Jaer’s Book ’Agencer des sons’ presentation at the Korean Cultural Center library

23.11.2022 / 20h / Concert <Gravitation>

Maison de la création-Site NOH

Place Saint-Nicolas, 1120 Bruxelles

Free

24.11.2022 / 10h30 / Lecture and Concert

Conservatoire de Liège-Espace Henri Pousseur

Rue Forgeur 22, 4000 Liège

Free

24.11.2022 / 20h 30 / Concert <Gravitation>

Salon Mativa

Quai Mativa 22, 4020 Liège

Réservations TEL 04 341 42 03

12€ for General, 6€ for Students

25.11.2022 / 19h / Concert <Gravitation>

L’Annexe 1

Rue de l’Inquisition 31, 1000 Bruxelles

Réservations 

Free

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