Jeonju International Sori Festival to highlight array of pansori sounds

A competition that includes the sounds of pansori in 105 performances will kick off in September.

The Jeonju Worldwide Sori Pageant is scheduled to happen at Jeonju Hanok Village in addition to 14 cities throughout North Jeolla Province, from Sept. 15 to 24.

“We purpose to create a singular program with top-notch performances that can’t be skilled elsewhere,“ mentioned Lee Wang-jun of the competition’s organizing committee throughout a press convention held in Seoul on Wednesday.

Lee added that at a time when Korean tradition, from “Okay-pop to Okay-movies and Okay-classics,” is gaining international recognition, it’s time to introduce Korea’s “sori” to the world. Sori in Korean means sound and likewise refers to singing in pansori.

This yr’s competition, held below the theme of “coexistence and restoration,” will kick off on Sept. 15, with a gap ceremony that includes the Jeonju Symphony Orchestra, gayageum participant Moon Yang-sook, pansori singers Ko Yeong-yeol, Kim Yul-hee, baritone Kim Gi-hoon and soprano Website positioning Solar-young.

A particular program titled “5 Pansori Levels” will characteristic 5 full pansori performances by grasp pansori singers whose common age is 82. Cho Sang-hyun, the oldest singer, is 86 years previous.

Pansori, a type of narrative singing of epic tales and folklore drama, runs from three to eight hours for a full efficiency. On this competition, “Chunhyangga” will final for 5 hours, whereas the shortest piece “Heungbuga” will run for 3. The mixed period of those 5 performances quantities to twenty hours.

Singers Kim Il-gu, Kim Su-yeon, Jeong Solar-im, Shin Younger-hee and Cho will every carry out “Jeokbyeokga,” “Sugungga,” Heungbuga,“ “Chunhyangga” and “Simcheongga,” respectively, Sept. 19-23.

The collection of full pansori performances will happen within the open courtyard in Dongheon, which was rebuilt 130 years in the past, situated in Jeonju Hanok Village. The viewers seating is restricted to 100 and the performances will likely be live-streamed on YouTube.

As well as, younger rising singers will supply their very own interpretations of the entire pansori performances.

To showcase the technology of pansori singers who’re forging new traditions within the artwork kind, the competition will embody the inventive pansori efficiency “The Outdated Man and the Sea” by singer Lee Ja-ran, talchum staff the Biggest Masque’s rendition of “Othello and Iago,” in addition to these by musical band ADG7.

Pansori and Western classical music will come collectively when Kang Kwon-soon performs with harpsichord participant Lee Min-joo. Cellist Mischa Maisky, cellist-conductor Chang Han-na and Ditto Orchestra are additionally to carry out collectively on the competition.

Performers from 13 nations together with Australia and Canada may also carry out their conventional sounds through the competition.

The ten-day competition will conclude with a collaborative efficiency of genre-bending singer Lee Hee-moon and the band Obangsin.

By Hwang Dong-hee (hwangdh@heraldcorp.com)