Jin Hi Kim (born February 6, 1957 in
Incheon
Incheon (; ; or Inch'ŏn; literally "kind river"), formerly Jemulpo or Chemulp'o (제물포) until the period after 1910, officially the Incheon Metropolitan City (인천광역시, 仁川廣域市), is a city located in northwestern South Kore ...
,
South Korea) is a composer and performer of ''
komungo'' and electric komungo, and a Korean music specialist.
Kim is known as a pioneer for introducing ''
geomungo
The geomungo (also spelled ''komungo'' or ''kŏmun'go'') or ''hyeongeum'' (literally "black zither", also spelled ''hyongum'' or ''hyŏn'gŭm'') is a traditional Korean plucked zither with both bridges and frets. ''Geomungo'' is a representative ...
'' (거문고, a Korean fretted board zither, also spelled ''komungo'') to American
contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included seria ...
scene through her own
cross-cultural chamber and orchestral compositions and her extensive solo work in
avant-garde, as well as cross-cultural
free improvisation. She is a
Guggenheim fellow in composition and her recent works include the development of ''komungobot'' (algorithmic robotic instrument) and solo performances of the world's only electric ''komungo'' with live interactive
MIDI computer system in her large-scale multimedia performance pieces.
Kim has received commissions from the
American Composers Orchestra
The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is an American orchestra administratively based in New York City, specialising in contemporary American music. The ACO gives concerts at various concert venues in New York City, including:
* Zankel Hall at ...
,
Kronos Quartet, and
Tan Dun's New Generation of East for Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center, among others.
During the last three decades Kim has performed as a ''komungo'' soloist in her own compositions at
Carnegie Hall
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, Lincoln Center,
Kennedy Center (
Washington, D.C.), Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art (Washington, DC),
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Asia Society
The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States (Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) and around the world (Hong Kong, Man ...
(NYC),
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and for collaborative improvisations at
Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,700-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is a Grade I l ...
(
London),
Venice Biennale,
Moers Festival (
Germany) and many significant international festivals throughout the
USA
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,
Europe,
Canada,
Latin America,
South America,
Russia,
Asia,
New Zealand, and
Australia
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.
Biography
Early life
She began studies of traditional
Korean music in South Korea in 1973, at her father's recommendation. She received a full scholarship to study at South Korea's first National High School for Korean Traditional Music (국립국악고등학교), one of 60 students accepted in the first year. The school was established under Ministry of Culture in association with the prestigious National Gugak Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts (국립국악원). There, she practiced court orchestra music, learned both court and folk styles of singing (가곡
kagok
Gagok is a genre of Korean vocal music for mixed female and male voices.
Accompaniments and interludes are played by a small ensemble of traditional Korean musical instruments.
It is inscribed in UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List
U ...
, 판소리
pansori, 민요 folk song), drumming (장고
janggo
The ''janggu'' (, also transliterated as ''janggo'' or ''changgo'') or sometimes called ''seyogo'' (slim waist drum) is the most representative drum in traditional Korean music. It is available in most kinds, and consists of an hourglass-shaped ...
) and bamboo flutes (단소
danso, 소금 sogeum), and selected the ''
geomungo
The geomungo (also spelled ''komungo'' or ''kŏmun'go'') or ''hyeongeum'' (literally "black zither", also spelled ''hyongum'' or ''hyŏn'gŭm'') is a traditional Korean plucked zither with both bridges and frets. ''Geomungo'' is a representative ...
'' (거문고, a six feet long board
zither with sixteen frets and six silk strings that are plucked with a thin bamboo stick) as her major instrument. Her selection of the instrument was audacious; dating to the fourth century, the ''geomungo'' had been favored particularly by male
Confucian scholars, and was generally not played by women. Upon graduation she received Ministry of Culture's Outstanding Student Award (문화공보부장관상). She continued her studies with Korea's leading
ethnomusicologists earning a B.A. degree in Korean traditional music theory and composition from
Seoul National University
Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a national public research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is largely considered the most prestigious university in South Korea; it is one of the three "S ...
in 1980. Upon graduation she received an award for rising new musicians and her composition was premiered for
KBS-TV national broadcasting.
Move to the United States
Interested in learning more about the musics of other cultures but aware that this would not be possible in Korea, Kim emigrated in August 1980 to the United States, where she immersed herself in world music. She first attended the
San Francisco Conservatory of Music and studied composition with
John Adams for one year then transferred to
Mills College in
Oakland, California, where she studied with
Lou Harrison,
Terry Riley,
David Rosenboom, and
Larry Polansky
Larry Polansky (born 1954) is a composer, guitarist, mandolinist, and professor emeritus at Dartmouth College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a founding member and co-director of Frog Peak Music (a composers' collective) He c ...
and received an MFA in electronic music and recording media in 1985. She was awarded Paul Merrit Henry Prize upon graduation.
While in California, she also studied the Chinese ''
guqin'' (an ancient 7-stringed zither) and Indian ''
bansuri
A bansuri is an ancient side blown flute originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is an aerophone produced from bamboo and metal like material used in Hindustani classical music. It is referred to as ''nadi'' and ''tunava'' in the ''Ri ...
'' (bamboo flute) from
G. S. Sachdev
G. S. Sachdev (born Gurbachan Singh Sachdev, in Lyallpur, Punjab, 1935 – June 24, 2018) was an Indian performer of the ''bansuri'' (bamboo flute). He performed Hindustani classical music.
Sachdev was on the advisory board of the World Flu ...
, and began to investigate the possibility of cross-cultural creative music.
During the 1980s, she regularly attended the
New Music America
New Music America was a nomadic American festival (held in Montreal during its last year) showcasing at its origins New York City's Downtown Music, but growing into one of the largest new music festivals ever held in North America, all in an attem ...
festival, where she met many noted contemporary composers including
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading fi ...
,
La Monte Young
La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music. He is best kno ...
,
Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reich ( ; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, a ...
,
Philip Glass
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, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison,
Laurie Anderson,
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.
She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center ...
,
Joan La Barbara
Joan Linda La Barbara (born June 8, 1947) is an American vocalist and composer known for her explorations of non-conventional or "extended" vocal techniques. Considered to be a vocal virtuoso in the field of contemporary music, she is credited w ...
,
Morton Subotnick,
Meredith Monk,
Joseph Celli,
Malcolm Goldstein
Malcolm Goldstein (born March 27, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York) is an Americans, American-Canadians, Canadian composer, violinist and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s. ...
,
David Moss,
Elliott Sharp,
John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jaz ...
and many others. From 1982 to 1988, she worked as a correspondent, interviewing and writing over 30 articles about those contemporary American composers for ''Eumak Dong-A'', a Korean monthly music magazine published by the ''Dong-A Daily News.''
Plunged into the American avant-garde music scene, she was invited to the Composer-to-Composer festival directed by
Charles Amirkhanian
Charles Benjamin Amirkhanian (born January 19, 1945; Fresno, California) is an American composer. He is a percussionist, sound poet, and radio producer of Armenian origin. He is mostly known for his electroacoustic and text-sound music. Perfor ...
in
Telluride, Colorado in 1989 and joined the one-week residency with John Cage and selected leading composers.
Kim premiered her commissioned works predominately in
New York City and travels worldwide performing. Kim lives in
Connecticut and teaches in the Music Department at
Wesleyan University.
Instruments
Jin Hi Kim's primary instrument is the ''geomungo'', though she also plays Korean percussion instruments such as
''janggo'' and ''
dancer’s barrel drum set''. With the Toronto instrument builder Joseph Yanuziello in 1998 Kim co-designed and now plays the electric ''komungo'', for which she has created numerous interactive pieces with a MIDI computer system using
MAX/MSP programmed by Alex Noyes. In collaboration with Alex Noyes Kim is developing ''komungobot'', an algorithmic robotic instrument.
Career and works
Kim has released 15 CDs, including ''Living Tones'', ''Komungo'', ''Pulses'', ''Komunguitar'', ''Sargeng'', ''No World Improvisations'', and ''Sound Universe''.
Cross-cultural compositions: Living Tones
Jin Hi Kim's compositions for Korean and Western instruments (both alone and in combination) have as their central focus the exploration of the Korean concept of ''
shigimse'' (시김새), the technique of ornamentation used in traditional vocal and instrumental music. Although the term's literal meaning is not known, in 1985 Kim began to use the term "living tones" to describe this attitude toward melodic material as she applied it in her work. Thus, her compositions use newly developed forms of
notation to indicate various types of
vibrato,
pitch bends, etc. in order that, as in Korean traditional music, each musical tone is given a unique expression and development. Kim's Living Tones CD features her signature bi-cultural compositions ''Nong Rock'' for string quartet and ''komungo,'' ''Tchong'' for
flute
The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...
and ''
daegum
The ''daegeum'' (also spelled ''taegum'', ''daegum'' or ''taegŭm'') is a large bamboo flute, a transverse flute used in traditional Korean music. It has a buzzing membrane that gives it a special timbre. It is used in court, aristocratic, and f ...
, Piri Quartet'' for
oboe/
English horn
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with three ''piri''(s) and ''Yoeum'' for ''kagok'' singer and
baritone
A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek (), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the r ...
.
In 1986 she began to be recognized as a composer when she was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet for her work ''Linking''. Jin Hi Kim is both composer and soloist for the following compositions: ''Nong Rock'' for the Kronos Quartet premiered at
Alice Tully Hall'','' Lincoln Center in 1992; ''Voices of Sigimse'' for
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center premiered at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival 1996 with Tan Dun conducting; ''Eternal Rock'' (2001) for American Composers Orchestra premiered at Carnegie Hall; and ''Tilings'' (2013) for Either/Or Ensemble conducted by
Richard Carrick
Richard David Carrick (born 1971 in Paris, France) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition for 2015–16 while living in Kigali, Rwanda. His compositions are influenced by diverse sources in ...
premiered at
The Kitchen (NYC).
Kim also has introduced Korean tall and colorful barrel drums in the orchestra. ''Eternal Rock II'' (2006) was commissioned and premiered by the
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conducted by
Gil Rose Gil Rose is the founder and conductor of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), founder and General-Artistic Director of Odyssey Opera, Artistic Director of Monadnock Music Festival, Professor of Practice at Northeastern University, and Execu ...
with
Gerry Hemingway as soloist on drums. ''Monk Dance'' (2007) was commissioned and premiered by the
New Haven Symphony Orchestra
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra based in New Haven, Connecticut. The New Haven Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert in 1895 and is the fourth oldest orchestra in the United States. Today, the orchestra is ...
with Kim as soloist on the drums and
Jung-Ho Pak
Jung-Ho Pak (born February 4, 1962 in Burlingame, California) is an American conducting, symphony conductor. He was Artistic Director of the San Diego Symphony and of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, of which he is now Conductor Emeritus. He wa ...
conducting. Kim was Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with New Haven Symphony Orchestra (2009-2011) for which she premiered her commissioned ''Nori III'' for electric ''komungo'' and percussion quartet.
In 1998 Kim was featured composer for the Festival Nieuwe Muziek and ''Agate Slice'' was commissioned for
Xenakis Ensemble
The Xenakis Ensemble is a Dutch music ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. Based in Middelburg, it is known as one of the few ensembles specializing in the works of the composer Iannis Xenakis. It is frequently con ...
(the
Netherlands). Kim also performed her compositions as soloist with
Empire State Youth Orchestra
Empire State Youth Orchestras (ESYO) is an ensemble of classical music performing groups aimed at providing talented young musicians with an opportunity to participate in group ensembles with other similar musicians. Based in the Capital Region of ...
,
Stanford Symphony,
KBS Symphony (
Korea),
Zeitgeist, and Kairos String Quartet (
Berlin).
Sociopolitical compositions
Responding to two wars involving American military in Asia, Jin Hi Kim composed two pieces, ''Child of War'' (2014) and ''One Sky'' (2005). A mixed choral piece, ''Child of War'' was dedicated to
Kim Phuc
Phan Thị Kim Phúc (; born April 6, 1963), referred to informally as the girl in the picture and the Napalm girl, is a South Vietnamese-born Canadian woman best known as the nine-year-old child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning phot ...
who is renowned for ‘the girl in the picture' during the
Vietnam War, was commissioned by John Marshall Lee and world premiered by The Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut and Kim, conducted by Carole Ann Maxwell at Quick Center,
Fairfield University
Fairfield University is a private Jesuit university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In 2017, the university had about 4,100 full-time undergraduate students and 1,100 graduate students, including full-time ...
. ''One Sky'' (2005), for chamber string orchestra and electric ''komungo,'' is dedicated to the reunification of North and South Korea, which was commissioned and performed by the Great Mountain Music Festival Orchestra, with Kim as soloist, at the
Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ); Kim was featured on
BBC The World/Global Hit radio program directed by
Marco Werman for her ''One Sky''; and the work was broadcast on
KBS TV.
In collaboration with artist
David Chung at the
University of Michigan, Kim composed two soundtracks: ''Pyongyang'', a multimedia installation, and ''Koryo Saram'', an hour long documentary film about Korean refugees from Russia to
Kazakhstan which was presented at
Harvard University,
Princeton University, Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art, and the
Sackler Gallery
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., focusing on Asian art. The Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art together form the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States. Th ...
(Washington, DC) and international film festivals including
Sãn Paulo International Film Festival,
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a charitable cultural film festival organization located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that advocates Asian representations through media arts. Works include films and videos by East Asia, Southea ...
, San Francisco Asian American International Film Festival,
Vancouver Asian Film Festival
The Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia for about 4–5 days in November. Launching in 1996, it is Canada’s oldest Asian film festival, exhibiting films and videos by North Ameri ...
and European Film Festival.
Multimedia performances
Kim has created hour-long cross-cultural multimedia works that led to a new direction incorporating Asian cultural heritage interfaced with emerging Western interactive technology.
* ''Ghost Komungobot'' (2015): a true experience of mystic birds, for ''komungobot'', electric ''komungo'' and visual design, in collaboration with Alex Noyes (interactive sound design) and
Benton C Bainbridge
Benton C Bainbridge (born January 22, 1966) is an American media artist known for creating single channel video, interactive artworks, immersive installations and live visual performances with custom digital, analog and optical systems of his ow ...
(visual media) was co-produced by
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and CultureHub, The Art & Technology Center at La MaMa in New York City. ''Ghost Komungobot'' is a reflection of emerging aspects of American culture including robots, artificial intelligence, and explorations of multidimensional space in the universe.
* ''Digital Buddha'' (2007-2014): a cosmic meditation, for electric ''komungo'' and ''komungo'' with video art (of Benton C Bainbridge and Joel Cadman), was performed at Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004 and again in conjunction of 2014 Exhibition Silla; Korea's Golden Kingdom, Expo Cibao (
Dominican Republic),
Expo Zaragoza (
Spain),
Detroit Institute of Art, Korea Festival, Art & Ideas Festival (
New Haven, Conn.), Festival Salihara (
Indonesia), Bandung International Digital Art Festival (Indonesia), Roulette (New York City, NY),
Cornell University,
Yale University,
Stanford Pacific-Asia Music Festival and
Michigan University
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
. ''Digital Buddha'' contrast both the neurotic intensity of American life with daily Asian
meditative practice.
* ''Touching The Moons'' (2000): a multi-media lunar ritual, interfaced electric ''komungo'', Indian ''
tabla'', a Korean ''
kagok
Gagok is a genre of Korean vocal music for mixed female and male voices.
Accompaniments and interludes are played by a small ensemble of traditional Korean musical instruments.
It is inscribed in UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List
U ...
'' singer, and an Indian ''
kathak'' dancer with a computer-controlled MIDI system, sensors, and digital animation. ''Touching The Moons'', won Wolff Ebermann Prize of International Theater Institute (Germany), was commissioned and premiered by The Kitchen (NYC) and performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. ''Touching The Moons'' challenges the duality of Asian mythology and American scientific exploration of the moon.
* ''Sanjo Ecstasy':'' a 90-minute improvisational form for electric ''komungo'', ''
gayageum'', ''
haegum
The ''haegeum'' () is a traditional Korean string instrument, resembling a vertical fiddle with two strings; derived from '' xiqin'', traditional Instrument of Xi people, which was introduced in Goryeo Dynasty through Northern Song. It has ...
'', ''janggo'',
drum set, and
shaman trance dancer, was premiered at the Sanjo Festival in
Jeonju, South Korea in 2003.
* ''Dragon Bond Rite'' (1997): a masked dance and music, juxtaposed with diverse traditions from
India, Indonesia, Korea,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
,
Tuva, and the United States. The work was commissioned and premiered at the
Japan Society and performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
Cross-cultural improvisations
In 1986 Kim met
Henry Kaiser
Henry John Kaiser (May 9, 1882 – August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. Prior to World War II, Kaiser was involved in the construction industry; his company was one of ...
and was quickly introduced to many other leading guitarists in the United States and Europe. Since then, she has improvised at many international festivals with Elliott Sharp,
Bill Frisell,
Derek Bailey,
Hans Reichel
Hans Reichel (10 May 1949 – 22 November 2011) was a German improvisational guitarist, experimental luthier, inventor, and type designer.
Career
Reichel was born in Hagen, Germany. He began to teach himself violin at age seven, playing in the s ...
,
Eugene Chadbourne,
James Newton
James W. Newton (born May 1, 1953) is an American jazz and classical flutist.
Biography
He was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. From his earliest years, James Newton grew up immersed in the sounds of African-American music, inclu ...
,
Evan Parker, Joseph Celli, Malcolm Goldstein,
Oliver Lake,
Billy Bang
Billy Bang (September 20, 1947 – April 11, 2011), born William Vincent Walker, was an American free jazz violinist and composer.
Biography
Bang's family moved to New York City's Bronx neighborhood while he was still an infant, and as a ...
,
William Parker,
Leroy Jenkins,
Peter Kowald,
Reggie Workman,
Mark Dresser,
Joëlle Léandre
Joëlle Léandre (born 12 September 1951 in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a French double bassist, vocalist, and composer active in Contemporary classical music, new music and free improvisation.
In the field of contemporary music, she has perfor ...
,
Jane Ira Bloom, Rüdiger Carl, Gerry Hemingway, and many other prominent figures in new music and avant-garde jazz.
For her own compositions and for collective creativity, she has improvised with traditional master artists from Asia and
Africa including
Kongar-Ol Ondar
Kongar-ool Borisovich Ondar ( tyv, Ондар Коңгар-оол Борис оглу, ''Ondar Konggar-ool Boris oglu'', , russian: Конгар-оол Борисович Ондар; 29 March 1962 – 25 July 2013) was a master Soviet and Russia ...
,
Min Xiao-Fen
Min Xiao-Fen () is a Chinese-American pipa player, vocalist, and composer known for her work in traditional Chinese music, contemporary classical music, and jazz.
Life
Min Xiao-Fen studied with her father, Min Jiqian (闵季骞), a music profess ...
,
Wu Man, Samir Chatterjee,
Mayumi Miyata
is a Japanese player of the '' shō'', a traditional Japanese mouth organ.
Miyata was born on April 1, 1954, in Tokyo and graduated from the Kunitachi College of Music, where she majored in piano. While in school, she began studying '' gagaku ...
,
Vikku Vinayakram
Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram (born 11 August 1942), also known as Vikku Vinayakram, is an Indian percussionist. He is also known as the God of ''ghatam''. He plays Carnatic music with the ''ghatam'', an earthen pot, and is credited with popula ...
, Abraham Adzenyah, and
Mor Thiam
Mor Dogo Thiam (born May 22, 1941) is a Senegalese drummer, cultural historian, and entertainment consultant. His surname is pronounced "Chahm".
Career
Thiam recorded his first album, ''Ndende Safarra'', in 1974 with B.B. King and Nancy Wilson ...
.
Awards
Kim received a 2001
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, which was created by John Cage and
Jasper Johns. She is a recipient of the composer fellowship from
Guggenheim Foundation,
American Composers Orchestra
The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is an American orchestra administratively based in New York City, specialising in contemporary American music. The ACO gives concerts at various concert venues in New York City, including:
* Zankel Hall at ...
,
National Endowment for the Arts, MAP fund from
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Carneg ...
, McKnight Visiting Composer,
Mary Flagler Cary
Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, which was first based in Ohio. He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder ...
Charitable Trust,
Meet The Composer
New Music USA is a new music organization formed by the merging of the American Music Center with Meet The Composer on November 8, 2011. The new organization retains the granting programs of the two former organizations as well as two media progra ...
, Wolff Ebermann Prize of International Theater Institute, and Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She received the artist residence fellowship for the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center (
Italy),
Asian Cultural Council to Japan and Indonesia,
Fulbright Special Project to
Vietnam, Djerassi Foundation (
California), Composers Now Creative Residencies (Pocantico Center of
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is a philanthropic foundation created and run by members of the Rockefeller family. It was founded in New York City in 1940 as the primary philanthropic vehicle for the five third-generation Rockefeller brothe ...
), and Freeman Artist-In-Residence at
Cornell University.
Works about
An autobiography, ''Komungo Tango'' covering her 25-year performing career, was published (in the Korean language) in 2007.
A retrospective interview about Kim's major works was archived in ''
Oral History of American Music
Oral History of American Music (OHAM), founded in 1969, is an oral history project and archive of audio and video recordings consisting mainly of interviews with American classical and jazz musicians. It is a special collection of the Irving S. G ...
'' at
Yale University Library.
Kim is featured in ''
Free Music Production (FMP)-In Retrospect'', published in Berlin, Germany.
References
External links
Official site
Interviews
Interview by Lonny Shavelson, Voice of AmericaInterview from PRI's ''The World-Global Hit''
Listening
Korean Music Radio October 2016
"Korean Music on Our Doorstep" from WNYC, 2003
"Jin Hi Kim Blends Komungo Styles with Western Music" Reported by Lonny Shavelson, PRI ''Global Hit'', 2005
Video
Jin Hi Kim, ''The Komungo'' BBC/PRI The World
Jin Hi Kim interview from ''Exclamation!'' program,
MBC TVJin Hi Kim interview from ''Heart to Heart'' program, Arirang TV
*
KBS television program
Han Nation' (한민족 리포트)
*
MBC TV national broadcast of the film ''100 Years of Sanjo''
Articles
* '
Asia as Silent Soul in the West'' (November 1999) Written by Jin Hi Kim, published by Asian American Renaissance for "Dancing Mosaic: A Pan-Asian Performance Showcase" Handbook, MN (1999); published by La Folio Magazine.
* '
'' (May 2000)
* '
'' (March 2003)
* Korean Identity in Cross-cultural Improvisation (October 2016) - Written by Jin Hi Kim Published by the Korea Society for World Music's Music and Culture Vol. 35
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1957 births
Living people
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Contemporary classical music performers
South Korean classical composers
Seoul National University alumni
Women classical composers
Musicians from Incheon
Women in electronic music
20th-century women composers
21st-century women composers
Korean music