Great Mountains Music Festival & School

Great Mountains Music Festival & School
Genre Classical music, chamber music
Location(s) PyeongChang, Korea
Years active 2004-present
Founded by Hyo Kang
Website
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Great Mountains Music Festival & School (한국어:대관령국제음악제, Abbr.: GMMFS) is one of the Asia's top chamber music oriented classical music festivals held annually in PyeongChang, Korea, the site of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Launched by Professor Hyo Kang of the Juilliard School in 2004 and currently led by the famed sister, cellist Myung-wha Chung and violinist Kyung-wha Chung, the festival brings in globally acclaimed musicians, music professors, artistically talented students, and classical music enthusiasts from home and abroad every summer.

Programs

Music School

The participants of Great Mountains Music Festival & School learn from a body of artist-faculty from Europe, Asia, and North America through individual instruction, chamber coachings, master classes, and special lectures. Since its inception, many music professors including Toby Appel, Ik-Hwan Bae, Myung-Wha Chung, Lluís Claret, Roberto Díaz, Lawrence Dutton, David Geringas, Koichiro Harada, Frans Helmerson, Nobuko Imai, Hyo Kang, Nam Yun Kim, Robert McDonald, Nobuo Okada, Igor Ozim, Aldo Parisot, Joel Smirnoff, Jian Wang, and Krzysztof Wegrzyn have taught and performed at the Great Mountains Music Festival & School. Its alumni include violinists Clara-Jumi Kang, Zia Hyunsoo Shin, Paul Huang, Dami Kim, Soobin Lee and pianist Sungjin Cho, the third prize winner of International Tchaikovsky Competition.

Venues

The main venues for the performances are Alpensia Concert Hall and Alpensia Music Tent, both located in the Alpensia Resort in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province of Korea. Alpensia Concert Hall was built in 2010 and seats nearly 600 people, which makes it more suitable for chamber music performances. The 1300-seat Music Tent was completed in 2012. Master classes and Student Recitals are carried out in Pyeongchang Hall, located within the first floor of Alpensia Convention Center.

Artistic Directors

Themes

The festival is carefully programmed each year according to its theme.

Year English version Korean version
2013 Northern Lights 오로라의 노래
2012 Dancing through the centuries 춤에서 춤으로
2011 Illumination 빛이 되어
2010 CREATE & RECREATE 창조 그리고 재창조
2009 What’s in a Name? 이름에 무슨 의미가?
2008 Music-Image-Text 음악-이미지-텍스트
2007 Visionary 비전을 가진 사람들
2006 Four Seasons of PyeongChang 평창의 사계
2005 War & Peace 전쟁과 평화
2004 Nature's Inspiration 자연의 영감

World Premieres

The programs of Great Mountains Music Fesitval & School often feature the World and Asian premieres of pieces by major composers from Korea and abroad.

See also

References

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