CelloGayageum bridges music of East and West

The cello and gayageum (Korean 12-stringed zither) are representative string instruments of Western and Korean music, respectively. CelloGayageum, a duet of Austrian cellist Sol Daniel Kim and Korean gayageum player Yoon Da-young, pursues an extraordinary collaboration between East and West featuring the two similar yet different instruments.

Yoon, who majored in gayageum at the Korea National University of Arts, had a chance to teach the Korean zither at the Korean Cultural Center in Berlin in 2016.

"Though I attended an art university, there was not much exchange between the School of Music and School of Korean Traditional Arts. It was the first time I listened to chamber music so closely in Berlin and performed with a cello," Yoon said during an interview with The Korea Times, Oct. 5.

"We thought the sound of the cello and gayageum went well with each other and suggested collaboration without a specific purpose. That's how our first song Dreamlike Fantasy was born."

Kim said they both liked the fresh approach to the instruments they have been playing for over a decade.

"I only played classical and contemporary music and Yoon only did Korean traditional music. We were attracted to the differences of the string instruments of East and West," he said.

Yoon played "sanjo," a solo performance, for Kim and Kim played a variety of classical music for Yoon, broadening each other's musical horizons.

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