Korean Traditional Music Series
Woosung Jung, certified trainee of Korean Intangible Cultural Asset Daegeum Jeongak, showcases not only various Korean flute-class of instruments but also different styles of music from aristocratic to contemporary.
Between Breaths: A Sonic Memoir
Korean musician gamin offers an intimate solo performance that weaves together sound, memory, and identity. Drawing from her personal monography on family history and cultural heritage, she brings the voices of her ancestors to life through the traditional winds-piri, saenghwang, and taepyeongso, telling a story of migration, resilience, and belonging.
Through improvisation and traditional Korean modes, this performance becomes both a personal ritual and a shared reflection. Between Breaths explores what it means to carry a lineage—musically, spiritually, and emotionally—while living between places, languages, and histories. The result is a sonic memoir where every breath holds generations of memory and quiet strength.
Sunday, September 7, 3:00 PM
100 Puritan Ln, Sudbury, MA
GAMIN
gamin is a distinguished Korean wind instrumentalist and a designated Yisuja (master) of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military Music. Specializing in Korean reed instruments—piri, taepyeongso, and saenghwang—she reimagines traditional forms through cross-disciplinary collaboration and improvisation.
gamin has toured internationally, performing at renowned venues including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Roulette Theater, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and on stage with Yo-Yo Ma at the Silkroad concerts. She has received prestigious fellowships from the Ministry of Culture, Republic of Korea, the Asian Cultural Council, the Jerome Hill Foundation, and the Howard Foundation. Her artist residencies include HERE Arts Center in New York City, the Camargo Foundation in France, and Harrison House in Joshua Tree.
Since 2018, she has curated the Crossing Boundaries performance series at the Center for Remembering and Sharing in New York. She was selected as an artist-in-residence at HERE Arts Center in 2020. gamin’s scheduled Carnegie Hall debut in March 2020, as a featured soloist, was cancelled due to COVID-19.
Since 2022, she has served as the director of Music of Korea at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, where she teaches Korean music and an Improvised music ensemble.