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Music Meditation Workshop In 2009-11 Jin Hi Kim, Music Alive Composer in Residence with New Haven Symphony Orchestra, has developed a highly successful Music Meditation Workshop for New Haven area youth. During the workshop students participated in a series of Music Meditation and Korean Drumming directed by Ms. Kim. Due to enthusiastic responses from the participants Ms. Kim continues the Music Meditation Workshop, as New Haven Symphony Orchestra Komungo Master in Residence 2011-2012, to serve for Corporations, Mental Health Centers, and schools in CT. Asian percussion instruments such as singing bowls, finger cymbals, temple block, harmonium and clappers have an historic role in various Asian meditation practices. Participants play these instruments during the workshop. This workshop combines meditation and music improvisation including a group chant (sonic text) and a creative music ensemble. Participants also are exposed to the music and culture of Korea as Ms. Kim demonstrates ancient Korean meditative music with her 4th century komungo. The komungo is a string instrument indigenous to Korea, originating in the fourth century. The six-stringed, fretted board zither was traditionally performed by male Confucian scholars for their meditation. Korean traditional music is often rooted in Buddhist meditation. Jin Hi Kim’s komungo solo performances are imbued with meditative and vivid energy that makes it mesmerizing. Ms. Kim has extended the workshop at the Connecticut Mental Health Center in Yale University. Ms. Kim directs Music Meditation Workshop to participated clients and staff at the center who are looking to explore the benefits that meditation and relaxation can bring. a 6th grade student at St. Martin de Porres wrote, a client at CT Mental Heal Center in Yale University said,
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