Giving Voice to the Korean American Community
Korean and Korean American composers featured in East Meets West concerts
May 11 @ 2:00 CDT - 3:30 CDT
FreeA selection of works from Korean and Korean American composers will be featured during May in four performances in Minneapolis and St. Paul entitled East Meets West.
The concert will be presented at four venues in May: University Lutheran Church of Hope, Minneapolis, on Friday, May 3 at 7 p.m.; MacPhail Center for Music, (Gary Sipes Hall), Minneapolis, Saturday May 4 at 2 p.m.; Hamline United Methodist Church, St. Paul, Friday, May 10 at 7 p.m.; and Metronome Brewery, St. Paul, Saturday, May 11 at 2 p.m.
Admission to all the concerts is free, with suggested donations. The concert is made possible with a grant through Metropolitan Regional Arts Council through a grant from the state Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
The concert, presented by the ensemble 10th Wave Chamber Music Collective, will include musicians playing Western instruments, and gayageum (a Korean traditional stringed instrument), with voice performers. Performers in this concert include: Angela Cabrera, percussion; Eun Cho, flute; Weily Grina-Shay, clarinet; April Kim, piano; Soomin Kim, voice; Soojin Lee, gayageum; Ruth Marshall, cello; Ashely Ng, violin; and Mikyoung Park, voice.
