Sunhong Kim (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Ethnomusicology program and a student in the Women's and Gender Studies certificate program and World Performance certificate program at the University of Michigan. Her doctoral project focuses on exploring the aural significance of instrumental sound in the performance practices of gugak (traditional Korean music) musicians in Seoul, South Korea. Drawing on her nine years of experience performing the piri (a double-reed wind instrument) within Seoul’s gugak community and institutions, she investigates how the timbre of traditional Korean musical instruments is interrelated with the development of musicians’ performance skills and the evolution of the musical canon since the mid-20th century. Her research has been expanded to a transpacific musical flow between the US and the Republic of Korea since the mid-20th century onward.
Kim received the 21st Century Fellowship from the Society for Ethnomusicology to conduct her doctoral fieldwork in South Korea. She is currently a visiting scholar at Hallyu Center at SNU Asian Center and a junior fellow at Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University.
Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology (Ethnomusicology), University of Michigan, 2020-present
(Embedded) M.A. in Musicology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2023
M.M. in Korean Music (piri/taepyeongso performance), Ewha Womans [sic] University, 2019
B.M. in Korean Music (piri/taepyeongso performance), Ewha Womans University, 2017
Piri (Korean double-reed aerophone)
This class (MUS346: History of Music) will be offered in the winter of 2025. This class explores transpacific musical influences of various genres from the US to South Korea during the latter half of the 20th century.
This paper was presented at Korean Music Conference at the University of Michigan in October, 2023. The paper addresses a national music competition, in relation to the system of the South Korean male conscription.
The Michigan Daily, Sep 17, 2023
The Michigan Daily, Mar 14, 2023
Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Univ. of Michigan, May 30, 2023
"A Wholehearted Musical Experiment: Exploring Korean Sanjo on Violin." Korean Traditional Performing Arts Foundation Gongzindan Black 18. Webzine.
당사는 웹사이트 트래픽을 분석하고 귀하의 웹사이트 경험을 최적화하기 위해 쿠키를 사용합니다. 당사의 쿠키 사용을 수락하면 귀하의 데이터가 기타 모든 사용자 데이터와 함께 집계됩니다.