"The Same River, Twice" - Oasis Cafe with Group Saawee and Do Yeon Kim [9-30-Sunday 5 PM]
Finally the Warm days are over!
It’s time now to reboot one’s brain that has been resting during the hot spells. Oasis cafe presents four musicians who are charting new territories where the future of Korean music lies. and beyond. To quote the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, "No man ever steps in the same river twice". While K-Pop is getting ever popular in the global stages, Korea’s musical tradition is much deeper and wider, and ever-changing. The musicians/performers featured in this concert have their musical ancestry going back centuries, yet they are ever stepping on new paths through experiments and collaboration with musicians from different cultures and genres. The river flows and artists evolve. We invite the audience to join and cheer for their quest.
Free admission. @ ECC chapel, 32 Harvard Street. Please join and meet the performers and fellow music lovers with snacks and beverages after the concert!
Here are interesting bits about the performers:
SAAWEE is a Trio of Korean musicians with percussions, traditional dance and contemporary violin.
Sita Chay is a violinist and composer who won the 2017 Latin Grammy Awards in the category "Best Mariachi Album" as violinist for the album "Flor de Toloache". Sita is the first and only Korean artist to have the honor. Her music is immersed in the modal style incorporating elements of Afro-Caribbean music, traditional Korean music, Bulgarian dance music, flamenco or Indian raga. Sita is the director and founder of the Cosmopolis Collective Cosmopolis: a multi-cultural musical project that shares immigrants' journeys through art and highlight the similarities between different cultures.
Jihye Kim views her presence on stage as a "performer” rather than as a "percussionist". Although she is trained on traditional drumming, her interest extends far beyond the traditional into experimental, improvisation, contemporary, and other genres. She is into creating unique sounds from natural materials, as well as electronics. She was a Grand Prize winner at the KBS Korean Traditional Music Award as a member of the "Ensemble Sinawi”. Currently, she is a member of "Urban Sound” based in London, UK and regularly collaborates with dancers, visual artists and musicians in Europe.
Insoo Park earned his master's degree in Korean traditional mask dance at the Korea National Academy of Arts. He also has a doctorate degree in literature from Korea University. As a dancer and a percussionist Mr.Park has toured worldwide, has collaborated with world-renowned Duksoo Kim as the mask dance soloist. He has led a creative mask dance company Dodam Dodam as an artistic director incorporating traditional dance language with contemporary philosophy. Mr.Park is renowned for his elegant yet powerfully subtle expressions that demonstrate the unique beauty of Korean rhythms.
Do Yeon Kim is a Gayageum player and NEC trained artist who is making her own genre of music by incorporating Korean Music, World Music, Free Jazz, Jazz, and Improvisation. Rigorously trained in the traditional Korean music and modern works alike, she graduated with top honors from Seoul National University’s Music Department, a protege of living Gayageum master Yi Jiyoung, she has master’s degree from NEC in Contemporary Improvisation under Hankus Netsky, Anthony Coleman and Joe Morris. Her first album (GaPi) with pianist Chase Morrin has been a finalist for the Korean Music Award, Korea’s version of the Grammys, in the crossover album category. She was selected as an 2018 Emerging Artist Award at St. Botolph Club Foundation.