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CMEK : Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea
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Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea –Since Western music was brought to Korea a century ago, it has gained solid footing, becoming a counterpart to traditional music of the region. During the last few decades, various Korean musicians have endeavored to construct a new kind of music, one that weakens the distinction between Western and Korean music. The Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea (CMEK) was founded in 1998, with aim to encourage the creation of new music for Korea, and promote it in the world as a part of the universal musical language.
The Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea is a chamber group consisting of young musicians expert in traditional korean and classical western instruments. Four members play traditional Korean instruments: gayageum, a 12-stringed zither, daegeum , a large transverse flute, saenghwang, a mouth organ, piri, a cylindrical oboe, and traditional percussion. Four more musicians play the Cello, Clarinet, Guitar, and western percussion. The CMEK mainly performs newly composed pieces that employ instruments and musical idioms of the two cultures.
Concerning a CMEK performance at the Tong-Young Music Festival in 2001, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: “The Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea had clearly shown that they are a group who puts much effort into creating a unique musical world through combination of traditional and contemporary instruments. It was very impressive to see the extent of the new musical experiments, the kind which seem a challenge in the European world, as they are happening in Korea today, and the Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea in the middle of the ardent movement.”
Currently, CMEK is renowned as one of the most innovative ensembles in the world, on the forefront of new music creation in Korea and abroad.
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