Jin Hi Kim Electric Komungo Demo
Live Satellite Broadcast from Culturehub at La Mama Theater (NYC) 2013
Jin Hi Kim's Digital Buddha
Jin Hi Kim is on PRI's The World
Jin Hi Kim discusses her work on the Interpretations series with composer Richard Carrick
Jin Hi Kim, electric komungo | MBC-National TV, S. Korea
Reviews
"Virtuoso, Jin Hi Kim promises thoughtful, shimmering East-West amalgams in combinations that are both new and unlikely to be repeated." Peter Watrous, The New York Times
"Her unique vision blends science fiction images, state-of-the-art technology, ancient mythology and timeless music and dance traditions. No other artist is doing work quite like this, and she does it with superb style."Joseph McLellan, The Washington Post
"This (Living Tones) is new music/world music at its finest, beyond political correctness, into the realm of the sublime, where words and cultural postures fall away."
Josef Woodard, The Los Angeles Times
"A gorgeously tactile piece that moved easily between an earthy folksiness and meditative refinement."
Allan Kozinn, The New York Times
"An essay in integration which suggested a Takemitsu-like ability to hover between eastern and western traditions." Paul Griffiths, The Times (London)
"with her electric komungo, she floated sustained tones and rudimentary melodies or plucked twangs suggesting a jew-harp or hinted at the bent notes of the blues." Jon Pareles, The New York Times
"Cosmic Music Meditation, as if their (audience) consciousness was carried into outer space." Tempo (Jakarta)
"Good music knows no boundaries neither of style or tradition or geographically. ...it emphasises and shifts and brings back and diverges and returns in a great mystical wheel of sound, whirring around a pole that is rooted deep in the ground yet facing upward." Stef, Free Jazz
"The delicacy of her effects and of the Kronos Quartet's playing were constantly riveting." John Rockwell, The New York Times
"(Eternal Rock) moved through the orchestra like a curious outsider, wondering at the range of sounds it can make and using it as an extension of twangy vocabulary of solo komungo." Anne Midgette, The New York Times
"Most exciting of the instrumental imports (to orchestra) was the set of barrel drums used by Jin Hi Kim in her own vibrant composition, "Monk Dance" ....her propulsive solos on drums took over, leaving the audience breathless." David Baker,New Haven Register
"cut across barriers of language, culture and tradition, touch us at deep, irrational levels result in a work that speaks to our common humanity." Joseph McLellan, The Washington Post
News Highlights
Jin Hi Kim performs with Min Xiao-Fen (pipa) at Museum of Chinese in America (New York) Watch Video
Jin Hi Kim featured on Voice of America: Ancient Sound Reimagined for Modern Times. Voice of America
Kim featured on PRI's The World: presenting two works,Eternal Rock and Digital Buddha at Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival 2012. She is soloist for Eternal Rock with Stanford Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Jindong Cai. PRI's The World - Global Hit Interview
Kim participates in a New York Philharmonic Credit Suisse Very Young Composers project in collaboration with Korea Arts and Culture Education Service.
Kim premieres her Digital Buddha II with Samir Chatterjee (tabla) and Thomas Buckner (voice) for Interpretations Avant-Garde Music Series at new Roulette on November 10, 2011. Read More
Kim is New Haven Symphony Orchestra Komungo Master-in-Residence 2011-2012. She will direct Music Meditation Workshop.
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Kim performs as soloist for her composition Monk Dance (for orchestra and Korean barrel drums) with Empire State Youth Orchestra on March 20 and May 22, 2011 at EMPAC. Read More
Jin Hi Kim was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 2010 for Music Composition.
Kim is Music Alive Composer-in- Residence (2009-2011) with New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Read More
Kim performs with Gerry Hemingway (percussion) duo version of Digital Buddha, a multimedia collaboration with komungo/electric komungo and video at Festival Salihara, Jakarta, Indonesia (September 29-30, 2010). The Duo CD, Pulses was released in 2010. Read More - Watch Video
Kim gave a solo recital, Digital Buddha at Festival Dos Abarazos, Santiago de Compostela, Spain on August 18, 2010. Read More
Conceived by Jin Hi Kim, The Asian Connection featured three Asian virtuoso improvisers Miya Masaoka (koto), Samir Chatterjee (tabla) and Kim (komungo/electric komungo) for World On Stage Festival at Cole Auditorium, in Greenwich, CT (May 10, 2009). Read More
In S. Korea, an interview about Kim's electric komungo was featured on Arirang TV -Global Broadcasting <Heart To Heart> in 2008, and MBC-TV < Exclamation!> in 2007.
Kim's electric komungo solo performance was broadcast by YTN National TV for the Korean Artists Overseas Festival 2006 in Seoul. Watch Video
In three decades Kim has performed in a free improvisation context at many international festivals with prominent Western avant-garde improvisers. Read More - Watch Video
Kim’s autobiography Komungo Tango, a 25 years journey of creative collaborations with master musicians around the world, was published in 2007, Seoul, S. Korea. Read More
In 2007 Kim has composed the sound track using electric komungo for Koryo Saram, an hour long documentary film about Korean refugees from Russia to Kazakhstan. Read More
In 2006, Kim's Eternal Rock II for Korean Barrel Drums and Orchestra was commissioned and premiered by Boston Modern Orchestra Project conducted by Gil Rose. Read More
In 2005 Kim was featured on BBC The World/Global Hit radio program for her One Sky for string chamber orchestra and electric komungo, which was commissioned (by the Great Mountain Music Festival) for the memorial event at DMZ between North and South Korea and was broadcast on KBS-TV in S. Korea. BBC Global Hit
Kim was Freeman Artist-In-Residence at Cornell University in 2004.
Kim's Nong Rock for String Quartet and Komungo and solo komungo piece were performed at
Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (Berlin) for Transonic Festiva 2004.
Following Jin Hi Kim’s appearance in the national MBC-TV broadcast of the film <100 Years of Sanjo>, a 90 minutes long Sanjo Ecstasy was premiered at the Sanjo Festival in Korea in 2003. Read More - Watch Video
In 2001 Korean National Broadcasting System (KBS-TV) produced an hour documentary film <Hanminjok Report> on Jin Hi Kim's musical contribution.
Kim was awarded the 2000-2001 American Composers Orchestra Composer Fellowship, and her commissioned Eternal Rock for Orchestra and Komungo was premiered at Carnegie Hall. Read More
In 2000 Kim’s Dong Dong Touching The Moons, a 70 minutes long multi-media lunar ritual, won the Wolff Ebermann Prize for at International Theater Institute Conference in Munich, Germany. Read More
Kim is featured composer for the Festival Nieuwe Muziek 1998 and Agate Slice was commissioned for Xenakis Ensemble (The Netherlands).
Kim's widely acclaimed 90 minutes long cross-cultural mask dance drama, Dragon Bond Rite (1997), featured musicians and dancers from India, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Tuva and the U.S., and was commissioned by the Japan Society through funds from Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and the Rockefeller Foundation Multi Arts Production Fund, and presented at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) and the Festival of Asian Art in Hong Kong. Read More - Watch Video
Kim was Composer in Residence and International Conference Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy in 1996.
Kim’s Voices of Sigimse was premiered by Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival 1996 with Kim as soloist and Tan Dun conducting. Read More
Kim’s Nong Rock for String Quartet and Komungo was commissioned by the Kronos
and premiered at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in 1992. Read More - Listen
In 1989 Kim was invited to the Composer-to-Composer Telluride Residency with John Cage and other leading composers. Photo
In 1986 Kim was commissioned by the Kronos Quarter for her work Linking. Read More
