ARCO Korea Creative Music Festival, First Regional Concert with Mokpo City Symphony on the 7th

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Arko Korean Creative Music Festival (hereinafter ArChangJe), a representative domestic creative music festival, will hold its first regional performance.

Mokpo City Symphony Orchestra with Achangje Poster.
[Photo by Korea Arts & Culture Education Service]

The Korea Arts & Culture Education Service announced on the 5th that the special concert "Mokpo City Symphony Orchestra with ArChangJe" will be held on the 7th at the Mokpo Citizens' Culture and Sports Center Grand Performance Hall.

This concert was planned in co-hosting with Mokpo City to establish a foundation for orchestral works selected in the Western music category of the ArChangJe composition contest to become part of the repertoire beyond a one-time performance.

The program will feature selected works from past ArChangJe festivals alongside classical music pieces. The pieces to be performed include △ the 8th festival selection, Han Jeong-im's piano concerto "Arari" (2016) △ the 12th festival selection, Jo Ara's "Into the Forest" (2020) △ the 10th festival selection, Kim Eun-sung's "Cold Flow" (2018) △ Wagner's Tristan und Isolde Overture △ and the 4th movement of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 16.

The concert, with all seats free of charge, will include commentary by Lee Geon-yong, the chairman of the ArChangJe steering committee and former president of Korea National University of Arts. Through this program, which combines classical and creative music, audiences are expected to experience the orchestration trends of different eras and various musical elements of each piece, enjoying the performance with engaging explanations.

Jung Heon, artistic director and principal conductor of the Mokpo City Symphony Orchestra, who will conduct the concert, said, "I am pleased to present Korean creative orchestral works to the citizens of Mokpo." He added, "I hope this concert will broaden the base for creative orchestral music and that many artistically high-quality creative orchestral works will be performed domestically."

ArChangJe began in 2007 to stimulate public interest in creative compositions in the Korean music market, which has been dominated by Western classical music, and to support composers, conductors, and performers in performing creative music without burden. This year marks its 15th anniversary.

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