Sookmyung Gayageum Orchestra has been known as a pioneer who created new ways to communicate with audiences in field of Korean traditional music. Sookmyung Gayageum Orchestra was founded in 1999, by a group of students in the Korean traditional music program at the graduates school of Cultural Heritage Sookmyung Women’s University. The appearance of Sookmyung Gayageum Orchestra raised quick attention from the public as it was the first musical group of its kind in the world of Korean traditional music. Since its inception, Sookmyung Gayageum Orchestra has made its great efforts to transmit various kinds of music in the beautiful harmony of gayageum ensemble. Sookmyung Gayageum Orchestra’s performance repertoire covers from western classical music such as Vivaldi’s Four Season, South American folk songs, Russian popular songs to Beatle’s git songs like ‘Let it be’, Hey Jude’, ‘Yellow Submarine’ etc, not to mention the high level of original Korean traditional music pieces. Sookmyung Gayageum Orchestra’s work quikly won much attraction from both young and old audiences, and led to bus performance schedule around the year. The recent CF for cable TV and movie theaters that Sookmyung appeared with B-boy, ‘Last for one’, has proved Sookmyung’s high acclaim from the public.
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