Cultural Artists Who Want to Take the Stage, Come to Seocho!

Recruiting a total of 100 teams including 70 teams for 'Seocho Chamber Music Festival' and 30 teams for 'Seocho Friday Concert' until April 4

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[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Seocho-gu has rolled up its sleeves to provide opportunities for cultural artists struggling due to COVID-19 to perform on stage.

The district announced that it will publicly recruit a total of 100 performance groups to participate in the ‘Seocho Chamber Music Festival’ and the ‘Seocho Friday Concert’ from the 21st to April 4th.

First, the ‘Seocho Chamber Music Festival,’ which selects young classical musicians and presents performances in a relay format at various local venues such as small theaters, will select 70 youth artist groups aged 19 to 39 through screening, with final selections made in April.

Selected groups will be given opportunities to perform on stage from April to November. Additionally, the district will support a joint planned performance stage called the ‘Youth Orchestra’ for young artists in the second half of the year.

Also, 12 groups composed of university students will be separately selected, and a ‘University Chamber Music Festival’ is scheduled to be held in August.

Along with this, the district plans to provide administrative and financial support to the selected groups to help them grow as future leaders in the cultural and arts sector.

Representative support measures include ▲performance fees of up to 1.2 million KRW per group ▲customized performance planning and administrative special lectures ▲a ‘Chamber Music Master Class’ for training professional chamber musicians.

The district expects to achieve a twofold effect by providing performance opportunities to young artists through the chamber music festival and contributing to the revitalization of private performance venues.

In addition, the district is recruiting 30 performance groups to participate in the ‘Seocho Friday Concert.’ The ‘Seocho Friday Concert,’ which began in 1994, is known as the longest-running music performance program among local governments and is a representative premium cultural performance of the district.

The recruitment targets skilled performance groups in various genres such as classical, opera, Korean traditional music, and jazz. The district will select groups through a non-face-to-face screening process based on submitted videos in April, considering performance records, project execution ability, excellence, and artistry.

Selected groups will be given one performance opportunity every Friday from May to December at cultural spaces within Seocho-gu. The district will provide the performance groups with stage access, basic sound equipment, and honoraria.

Detailed information about the recruitment for performance groups for the ‘Seocho Chamber Music Festival’ and the ‘Seocho Friday Concert’ can be found in the ‘Notices’ section on the Seocho-gu Office website.

Cheon Jeong-wook, Acting Mayor of Seocho-gu, said, “We will continue to hold various cultural and artistic performances to revitalize culture and arts by providing performance opportunities to artists and to relieve cultural thirst for residents exhausted by COVID-19.”

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