South Korean tenor Ha Man-teak will embark on a recital tour for the first time in 11 years. Starting from Jeonju, North Jeolla Province on Wednesday, the singer-turned-businessman will bring his recital to Daejeon on Thursday and to Seoul on Saturday before bringing the tour to a close at Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province on Tuesday. Under the title “Se Ti Manca,” an Italian phrase meaning “Do you m...

South Korean pianist Cho Seong-Jin’s latest album, The Handel Project, has topped Billboard's Traditional Classical Albums weekly chart this week, according to the US magazine’s chart. The Handel Project, released on February 3, is a collection of three suites from Handel's first collection of Suites de pièces pour le clavecin, which are some of Cho's favorite pieces of music. The album also fea...

Some 30 years ago, the Korea National University of Arts, known as K-Arts, was established with a goal to provide top quality education so that Korean students would not have to go abroad to study the arts. It was a goal in which not many believed back them. After the opening of the music school in 1993, the theater, film, dance, art and traditional arts schools were introduced one after another...

Endless knitting possibilities While it's true that machines can create items more quickly and efficiently, knitting offers a unique and rewarding experience that appeals to all generations. The act of interlacing loops of yarn to create something beautiful and useful is both calming and fulfilling, and the results are always one-of-a-kind. For individuals who find comfort in the repetitive act...

Just three days after the news of the death of the cartoonist of the original "Black Rubber Shoes" broke, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced a series of measures to prevent similar tragedies. On Wednesday, the ministry announced that it plans to include specific provisions concerning secondary works in the standard contract for the comics field. Secondary works are creative wo...

Even though the Mozart complete piano concertos project was put on hold after Marriner passed away in 2016, Son, 36, said she really aspires to return to that plan, especially because she now has a renewed interest in recording albums. “When I was younger, I felt burdened by recording albums and believed that the sense of being present at a live performance could never be captured in a recording...

Cellist Choi Ha-young, 26, and pianist Sohn Jeung-beum, 32, will form a duo to perform Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne for Cello and Piano, G. Scelsi’s Dialogo for Cello and Piano, B. Britten’s Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65 and W. Lutoslawski’s Grave (Metamorphoses for Cello and Piano) and Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19. Choi Ha-young won the 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition for t...

In addition to classical music concerts, a musical called "Rachmaninoff" is also scheduled to be staged at Theater Yong at the National Museum of Korea from April 1 to April 22. The musical is inspired by the composer's three-year struggle with depression and writer's block after his first symphony received harsh reviews, as well as his recovery after meeting physician and psychiatrist Nikolai Da...

Serendipitous fusion What turns his experiences and influences into something unique is his desire to create new things. “There are strange points that are created when things that are different meet. I'm touched by those points,” Jung said. He said this when asked about his love for "gugak" -- Korean traditional music. When he encountered the Royal Ancestral Ritual and its music for the first...

“The original team has gradually come to comprehend the nuance of multi-casting (for one role), but it took a lot of effort to persuade them,” Sihn told The Korea Herald. He added that by commencing the tour in Busan, he hopes to invigorate the city's performing arts scene. "With the establishment of the Dream Theater dedicated to musicals, Busan is now fully equipped to host large-scale produc...

The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, with its incoming music director Jaap van Zweden, will perform a special concert in April for those in need. On April 7, "A Very Special Concert" will take place at Ewha Womans University with guest violinist Kong Min-bae, an 18-year-old violinist who was diagnosed with high-functioning autism at the age of 5. He first learned to play the piano as part of his tr...