The gayageum is an instrument made with 12 silk strings stretched over a paulownia wood body. Between the silk strings and the body are movable bridges called ‘anjok’ that support each string. It is ...

BAROQUE AND GAYAGEUM CONCERTS: The Department of Music announced a trio of concerts, one by the UC Davis Baroque Ensemble and the others featuring the music of the Korean gayageum. A news release ...

The quavering notes that hang in the air above the many-stringed gayageum might be a mystery to many Midwesterners, but one Rochester resident is very familiar with them. Dr. Soojin Lee, a ...

Jocelyn Clark grew up in Juneau and now teaches Eastern studies at Pai Chai University in South Korea, where she has made a name for herself playing traditional Korean music on the gayageum. She ...

Master instrumentalist Hwang Byung-ki who played the gayageum, the traditional Korean string instrument, died Wednesday of pneumonia that he contracted while recovering from a stroke he suffered in ...

I was 9 when I first heard the gayageum (Korean zither) in the song "O Nara" from the historical K-drama "Jewel in the Palace." While I couldn't understand a word of the lyrics, the uniqueness of the ...

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It was somewhat natural for Gi Yoo-jeong, a 30-year-old gayageum player, to turn to the Korean traditional twelve-string instrument. "My mom was a gayageum player, and I grew up listening to her ...

Jocelyn Clark is an accomplished musician, ethnomusicologist and educator known for her expertise in Korean folk music and the gayageum, a traditional Korean instrument. Born in Washington, D.C., and ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — As disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic lessens, musicians from all over the world visited Taipei for the World Music Festival @ Taiwan. Among them was the gayageum trio ...

Hwang Byung-ki, a master of the Korean traditional musical instrument "gayageum," died of pneumonia Wednesday, his family said. "He was treated for a cerebral stroke last December but died of ...