{"id":1594,"date":"2013-02-11T21:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2018-03-22T01:13:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T01:13:37","slug":"meet-dr-joopoong-kim-performing-at-50th-anniversary-march-on-washington-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/meet-dr-joopoong-kim-performing-at-50th-anniversary-march-on-washington-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Dr. Joopoong Kim, composer for 50th Anniversary SYMPHONY of BROTHERHOOD Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joopoong Kim is a Korean composer, and currently, he serves as a Professor of Electronic and Digital Music at the Kyonggi University in Seoul, Korea where he also chairs the graduate program on music therapy.\u00a0 As a composer, academic, and educator, Dr. Kim focuses his efforts on manifold genre of musical arts including orchestral, ensemble, chamber music, and most prominently, modern and digital music.\u00a0 Further, Dr. Kim has made significant contributions to the development of the composition technique, \u201cConfiguration Music,\u201d for which he received the Korean Music Award in 2010 from the Korean Society of Composers for his work.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Kim began his lifelong journey in the creative field of music composition at Hanyang University in Seoul where he graduated with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Music Composition in 1982.\u00a0 He then pursued his graduate degree in Music Composition Theory at Hanyang University, earning his Master\u2019s degree in Music Composition in 1990.\u00a0 In 1991, Dr. Kim began working toward his second Master\u2019degree of Music in Composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he was the recipient of the Special Chancellor\u2019s Scholarship for seven consecutive years.\u00a0 At UMKC, Dr. Kim was a member of the UMKC Wind Ensemble where he played the clarinet, and also, in Musica Nova which performed several of his compositions.\u00a0 Dr. Kim completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Composition in 1998 under the guidance of the late Dr. Gerald Kemner.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Kim returned to Korea in 1999, and since his return, he has maintained a prolific and dynamic professional career as a composer.\u00a0 Recent performances of Dr. Kim work include performances at the Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival and the Pan Music Festival in 2010, at his own Percussion Ensemble Compositional Recital in 2011, and at the 8th Vision-C Compositional Recital in 2012.\u00a0 This last performance was especially meaningful for Dr. Kim where two of his pieces for chorus ensemble, the \u201cThe Mu-Goong-Wha in My Heart for Acacppella\u201d and \u201cForward March for Mixed Chorus,\u201d were performed to commemorate Korea\u2019s independence from the Japanese colonial rule in the early part of the 20th Century.\u00a0 Through these pieces, Dr. Kim hoped to impart the lessons of sacrifice and courage that the Independence Liberation Army has exemplified and to call on Koreans to march forward and continue the legacy in shaping Korea\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In addition, Dr. Kim is also active in professional associations both in Korea and abroad through which he contributes toward the development of modern music in Korea.\u00a0 Currently, Dr. Kim serves as the President of the Korean Society of Visionary Composers, an organization he helped found in 2000.\u00a0 Further, Dr. Kim holds the position of Supervisor for the Music Association of Korea, Vice President of the Asian Composer\u2019s League \u2013 Korea National Committee, and also, the Executive Officer of the Korean Composer\u2019s Association, Inc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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