Gamin Kang is one of the most well-known performers of gugak (traditional Korean music) residing outside of Korea. She will perform  and discuss the place of traditional wind instruments in Korean music. She believes that music is the window to see culture and history and a tool to identify your roots.

For this concert gamin will perform traditional works for piri (double reed Korean oboe), taepyeongso (double-reed horn), and saenghwang (mouth organ), and discuss the place of these traditional instruments in a vibrant new musical world.

About the performer: 
Gamin Kang, known simply as “gamin,” a distinguished NYC soloist, tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has participated in several cultural exchange programs, as Artist-in-Residence at Asian Cultural Council, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and Brandeis University. She has presented lecture/concerts at Harvard and Dartmouth, and at international universities in Paris, Bangkok, and Tashkent. She was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma.

gamin has been curating several performances at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, NYC, as part of the CROSSING BOUNDARIES series. She was selected as artist-in-residency at the HERE Arts Center in 2020. Gamin’s Carnegie Hall début as featured soloist with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra of Korea, scheduled for March 27, 2020, was postponed by the covid pandemic until a later date.

For 2021-2022,  gamin has been selected as a winner of a 2-year Fellowship of the Jerome Foundation. She plans to continue composing a multi-disciplinary work about crimes committed against women in Asia during WWII.

Sounds Of Wind: A lecture-concert on Korean Wind Instruments with gamin