Ticket : https://sdtt.or.kr/user/program/2024/7/1508
Serene & Sarang is a Korean music duo performing Korean traditional music reinvented in their own musical language. Their original songs belong to no current musical genre which is why they refer to themselves as “the strangers”.
Serene Kim is an expert of a specific old era Korean noble music known as ‘Jung-ga’. It is still relatively unknown to many Koreans as it was only sung between those in the high class of old Korean society. As an official Korean Intangible Cultural Asset (properties) 12 Gasa Completer, her passion for traditional music is innate yet she does not wish to limit her musical boundaries. Through Serene’s life as an Intangible Cultural Asset and by studying and practicing alternate perspectives of Korean music, she desires to express the authentic beauty of Korea through her unique voice.
Composer, pianist and arranger, Sarang H. Lee always thought of herself as a “later bloomer”. She discovered and became curious about an unknown and distant world and traveled to The Netherlands to pursue a masters degree in jazz composition at Codarts Rotterdam at the age of 36. Life and study in an unfamiliar land with a foreign language was never easy but the adversity opened her eyes and changed what she valued in life. She has since been broadening her musical spectrum working as a jazz composer, lyricist, arranger, producer, improviser and lecturer. Sarang is a strong advocate of her Korean heritage and its traditional music as she strives to introduce this beautiful music to the world.
Serene & Sarang met in Holland in early 2017 and collaborated together during their time away from home. Having traveled back to Korea after their studies, after all these years, they have finally reunited in Seoul. Celebrating their first visit to The Netherlands as artists after COVID-19, the duo began their journey to showcase their new and original reinterpreted Korean ethnic music on the world stage and released their debut album on the 9th of Feb, 2023. On the day of the first album release and afterward, they performed their repertoire from their albums several times in the Netherlands and noticed that all the audiences greatly loved their music.
And now, it’s time for you to come and see!
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* 본 공연은 2024년 예술창작활동 지원사업 선정 대상자인작곡가 사랑 (Sarang H. Lee)의 창작 프로젝트의 일환으로,서울특별시와 서울문화재단의 지원을 받아 제작되었습니다.
#서린사랑
Sarang H. Lee 