Musicians
Guest Performers
Kohei Nishikawa, born in 1953, has a double training in classical and traditional fields, a rarity in Japan. He was principal flutist of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra at the start of his musical career, but then started an important career as a traditional flutist with bamboo transverse flutes, to accompany
the classical traditional dance Nihon-buy? and Kabuki. In order to promote his instruments and the Japanese music to a larger public, and to teach his instruments in various universities in Tokyo, he has published several books and CDs. He performs and conducts master-classes abroad, including Canada and Europe. In 2011, he began research on the nose flutes of Taiw
an, Hawaii, Myanmar and Malaysia by the support from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fund. In 2015, he received the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) fund for the research of nose flutes in Taiwan.
the classical traditional dance Nihon-buy? and Kabuki. In order to promote his instruments and the Japanese music to a larger public, and to teach his instruments in various universities in Tokyo, he has published several books and CDs. He performs and conducts master-classes abroad, including Canada and Europe. In 2011, he began research on the nose flutes of Taiw
an, Hawaii, Myanmar and Malaysia by the support from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fund. In 2015, he received the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) fund for the research of nose flutes in Taiwan.
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gamin is a distinguished soloist who tours the world performing both traditional korean music as well as cross-disciplinary collaborations, based in New York City. Born in Seoul, She began studying piano at the age of six, violin at the age of nine, Korean music(piri major) at age fifteen. In 1998, she received her B.A. in Korean Music from Seoul National University. Her main instrument is the piri, a double reed instrument similar to the oboe. She also plays the taepyeonso(a double-reed horn) and saenghwang(a type of mouth organ). She is *Yisuja, official holder of the Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Classical Court Music, Classical Piri Music and Daechita(royal military music). She has also dedicated herself to academic studies receiving a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) in Korean traditional music from Seoul National University. She was a member(as an assistance principle piri player) of the National GugakOrchestra from 2004 to 2010. gamin is constantly moving forward and pushing the limit to “invent” new sonorities from a rather limited and ancient. gamin has been a recipient of several cultural exchange program grants. gamin was selected as Artist-in-Residence sponsored by the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) of the Rockefeller Foundation in 2014. She was the recipient of a residency program grant from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Republic of Korea in 2011, 2012 and has toured with lecture concerts at Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, Brandeis University, Northeastern University, University of Hartford, among other places. She was also invited by German and French governmental organizations with performances in Paris, Strasbourg, Freiburg and Karlsruhe. gaminrecently appeared in Cross-Cultural Improvisation, Workshops & Performances in New York City collaborating with world-acclaimed musicians such as Jane Ira Bloom, Wadada Reo Smith, Elliott Sharp, and others, with a premier performance at the Roulette Theater and New School in NYC. gamin also was invited by Silkroad’ Global musicians workshop as a faculty artist in Indianapolis 2016, as well as featuring artist at Silkroad’s concert in Seoul 2018. gamin has released five albums: “Attraction” (2006), the first album made to popularize the piri for the general public; “Juxtaposition” (2008) explores the harmony between piri and saenghwang (mouth organ, sheng in Chinese) with marimba; “Progression” (2009) contains more progressive contemporary music that features various instruments including piano and synthesizer; “Gamin Contemporary” (2014); and “Heaven, Wind, Stars and Poem” (2015) by Hux Music for celebrating the tenth anniversary of her first recording. As digital recordings, gamin also released “Attraction” and “GAHYANGMINAK,” traditional music album for piri solo. gamin’s artistry is also praised and noted in All About Jazz in 2014…“the most haunting tracks of the collection is the elegiac JeongseonArirang played by gamin on the piri (double reed bamboo oboe)…,” written by Ian Patterson. Her latest digital album, “Wind and Stone,” is a collection of collaborative improvisational works with some of the most prestigious musicians in New York City, such as, Ned Rothenberg, Satoshi Takeish, Elliot Sharp. As a soloist, her contemporary music work has recently premiered in Seoul, South Korea, which was performed by Korea Symphony 2016 and Seoul Philharmonic 2015. Currently, gamin is a visiting scholar at James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies in University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A |
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JOCELYN CLARK - grew up in Juneau, Alaska playing piano, clarinet and oboe. From 1987 to 1998, she spent a year in Japan where she became interested in non-Western music. She started studying the koto at the age of 18 with the Sawai Koto Academy at Wesleyan University under YAGI Michiyo and MARUTA Miki. In 1990-1 she studied zheng Under WANG Xun at the Nanjing Academy for the Arts in China, continuing her studies the following year with WANG Changyuan in New York City. From 1992-1994 and 1999-2001 she studied traditional Korean music majoring in kayagûm performance at the National Classical Music Institute in Seoul, Korea initially with YI Jiyeong, and then with JI Aeri, and her current teacher, National Living Treasure KANG Jeongsuk, on grants from Fulbright, the Seonam Foundation, and the Korea Institute at Harvard University. Clark has performed in China, Korea, Japan, the U.S. and Germany as a solosit with such ensembles as UnitedBerlin, and as part of an ensemble with the Wang Changyuan Zheng Art Ensemble of New York, the Sawai Koto Ensemble of New York, and with her koto, zheng, kayagûm and changgu ensemble 'IIIZ+' that she founded in 2001 with percussionist/composer Il-Ryun Chung. She is co-director of the CrossSound music festival in Southeast Alaska, and writes and co-directs CrossSound Radio.