WKSA ON AIR | Culture Show 2018: Doyeon Kim (Gayageum)

Since the age of 12, Boston-based Gayageum performer DoYeon Kim has dreamt of introducing Korean traditional music to the international stage. She is the first Gayageum player admitted to the New England Conservatory, where she currently studies Contemporary Improvisation under Hankus Netsky, Anthony Coleman and Joe Morris. Her graduate studies at NEC provide the opportunity to increase her understanding of all types of music, and to compose and perform music incorporating Korean folk music, World Music styles and making her own genre.

In both 2009 and 2011, DoYeon received the Gold Prize in Gayageum sponsored by the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts, one of the most prestigious awards in Korea. In addition to a number of other prizes, she was also awarded the 2009 Gold Prize in the Dong-A Ilbo Traditional Music Competition. Experienced in both traditional Korean music and modern works alike, DoYeon has played several of her own solo recitals in Korea and America. ‘JaYu Quartet” which is she found was selected as an honors ensemble in 2015-2016 by New England Conservatory and performed alongside composer John Zorn himself in a 2014 concert of Zorn’s music at New York City’s “The Stone”. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts invited her to play in the “Lunar New Year Music Performance” in February, 2015 and 2017. In 2008, DoYeon was chosen by the Korean Department of Culture as one of the few Gayageum musicians in the Seoul Youth Delegation tour of Japan. She has worked with many living composers and performed several world premieres, and has also been invited as a guest lecturer on Gayageum and Korean Music at Tufts University, Emmanuel College and Brandeis University. She successfully released her first album ‘GaPi’ in 2017 with a sold out album release concert in Korea. A graduate of the National Traditional Music High School, DoYeon received top honors upon her graduation from Seoul National University’s College of Music in 2014. She is a protégé of living Gayageum master Yi Jiyoung.

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