ROBERTSON LIBRARY, LEVEL 7, 'THE LANTERN'

Monday 1st July, 5.30pm-7pm

As part of the pre-conference program, please join us in the 'Lantern' on level 7 of the Robertson Library for an evening of traditional Korean and Chinese music performances. Drinks and grazing table style food will be served.

The conference will be opened by performances by the WA Guzheng Youth Orchestra, followed by a presentation by Dr Jocelyn Clark (Pai Chai University) on the topic of "in conversation with Dr Jocelyn Clark: Gugak as a way of learning".

The conversation-style special talk will be followed by a pansori performance by Master Singer Jinsook Choi, with Dr Jocelyn Clark playing the gayageum.

If you would like to RSVP for this event, please register here.

Pansori Singer CHOI Jinsook is an official licensee of National Intangible Cultural Property No. 5, Pansori, Song of Chunhyang (국가 무형문화재 제5호 판소리 춘향가 이수자) as well as Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Traditional Arts, Pansori Division at Chung-Ang University in Seoul (중앙대 전통예술학부 판소리 외래교수), where she also received her Master’s Degree. 

On April 20, 2019 she performed the full 6-hour Song of Chunhyang at the National Theater’s Haneul Theater (2019년 4월 20일 6시간 춘향가 완창발표회  국립극장 하늘극장), followed by a performance on July 8, 2023 with the full 5-hour Song of Simcheong at the National Folk Gugak Center’s Ye Eum Hall (2023년 7월 8일 5시간 심청가 완창발표회 국립민속국악원 예음헌). Master Choi has a long list of awards which include “Today's Young Artist Award” 9문화관광부 선정 오늘의 젊은 예술가상 수상) by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, The 17th Annual Jeonju Daesaseupnori Regular Division 1st place (제17회 전주대사습(大私習)놀이 일반부 장원), The 9th Annual KBS Gugak Competition, Pansori Division, Gold Medal (제9회 KBS 국악대경연 판소리 금상), and the 21st Annual National Namdo Folk Song Competition, Master Singer Division, Grand Prize (Presidential Award) (제21회 남도민요전국경창대회 명창부 대상 (대통령상)).

Pai Chai University

Monday Welcome Reception 'in conversation with' keynote

Gayageum artist and ethnomusicologist

Prof. Dr. Jocelyn Clark is an assistant professor at Pai Chai University (培材大學校) in South Korea. After graduating from high school in Juneau, Alaska, she spent 25 years in Japan, China, and Korea studying traditional musics. Jocelyn has a 2005 Ph. D. from Harvard University in East Asian Languages and Civilizations where she wrote on the Korean musical genre kayagûm pyôngch'ang (伽倻琴竝唱) focusing on the tension between its oral transmission/low social standing and its tenuous relationship to Chinese classical poetic texts of the High Tang period. She has published in academic journals such as The World of Music, Asian Musicology, and Perspectives on Korean Music. Her research interests include orality, music of place, aesthetics, and contemporary “national music” performance practices in Korea, China, and Japan in the age of AI. She is engaged in long-term field research on sanjo (伽倻琴散調) and byeongchang (伽倻琴竝唱), Korean traditional genres of which she is also a practitioner and the first foreign official government  jeonsuja (傳受者) in the national treasure system—under North Jeolla Province Intangible Cultural Property No. 40: Gayageum Sanjo [全羅北道無形文化財 第40號 伽倻琴散調 保有者], and under National Intangible Cultural Property No. 23: Gayageum Sanjo and Byeongchang [國家無形文化財 第23號 伽倻琴散調/竝唱]. She commissioned and/or premiered over 30 new works for Korean gayageum for solo and with her ensemble IIIZ+ (guzheng 古筝, koto お琴, gayageum 伽倻琴, and percussion).

Read more abour Dr Clark here: https://www.ktoo.org/2024/03/11/tongass-voices-jocelyn-clark-dedicates-her-life-to-studying-korean-folk-music/

Nao Kamei is a master tsukushi-mai dancer, and performs under the stage name Namitoshi Nishiyamamura. Tsukushi-mai dance originates in the Kyushu region, and Nao Kamei has been studying the traditional Japanese dance for over twenty years. She has also taught this dance to high school and university students in Japan. She is also active in preserving the tradition through performing the art form at seasonal festivals, special performances and shrines.

There are two main types of tsukushi-mai dance styles, kan-mai and kugutsu-mai. The former is performed at religious festivals and shrines to offer supplication to gods. The latter is performed with passion to entertain an audience. Tsukushi-mai is a Japanese dance form that has many acts not found in other Japanese styles. In particular, other traditional dances do not have similar footwork and jumps, and as such tsukushi-mai is unique form of dance even in Japan.