The annual overseas K-pop concert series organized by entertainment giant CJ ENM will resume in-person this year after a two-year hiatus. This year’s KCON will be the first on-site festival since the coronavirus crisis began three years ago. CJ ENM held the festival as online events in 2020 and last year. The upcoming K-pop concert series will hit five cities around the world this year, includi...

Concert pianist Kim Sun-wook is poised to hold three recitals in May, Vincero, a classical concert production company, said on Wednesday. At his first recital in Korea this year, Kim will showcase three different colors of three great composers with a program of Schubert’s Four Impromptus D. 899, Albeniz’s ‘Iberia’: Book II and Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor S. 178. The first concert will take...

Cellist Kim Hyo-jeong is set to play familiar favorites when she takes the stage on Sunday for her solo recital. At Sunday’s recital at Kumho Art Hall Yonsei in Seoul, Kim, 26, will perform Mendelssohn’s “Lied Onhne Worte,” Op. 109, Faure’s “Sicilienne,” Op. 78, Chopin’s Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65, and Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 49. “I chose familiar melodies by Mendelssoh...

K-pop powerhouse JYP Entertainment’s newly established US arm will be led by the person largely responsible for the global success of the label’s girl group Twice. “Shin Hyun-kuk has been tapped to helm US operations. He is a chief director of one of the four artist management and marketing teams and JYP Three Sixty’s chief executive officer,” a JYP Entertainment official told The Korea Herald T...

Augustin Hadelich, an Italian-German-American violinist and Seoul Philharmonic’s Artist-In-Focus, will take the stage later this month for the first time without any cancellations as a visiting artist since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Five concerts featuring the 37-year-old violinist will take place as planned starting from March 31, an official at SPO confirmed on Monday. During his vi...

After signing a contract with EMI Classics at the age of 17, Lim released his first CD in 2002, which included compositions by Chopin, Schubert and Ravel. He first stole the limelight in the world’s classical music scene by becoming the youngest top prize winner of the 2001 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Piano Competition in Paris. In 2003, Lim won third place at the prestigious ...

Balming Tiger is set to perform at the International Day stage at Brush Square Park on March 17 as well. Launched in 1987, SXSW is an annual collective showcase of film, music and interactive media held every March in Austin, Texas, US. It is one of the largest and most influential music industry events alongside Singapore’s Music Matters and France’s MIDEM. This year’s festival will run from Ma...

Singer Ailee will release an all-English language album Monday, the artist’s management agency The L1ve said. The album, titled “I’m Lovin’ Amy” will hit online music streaming sites at 6 p.m., wrapping up her previous releases “I’m,” “Lovin” and “Amy.” It is the singer’s second English album work after single “Sweater” released in December 2019. Leading the 12-track album is “Murder On The Da...

Seoul Pops Orchestra director Ha Sung-ho to organize concert for Ukraine

Chin, 60, is an internationally acclaimed composer and winner of multiple awards, including the 2004 Grawemeyer Award, the 2005 Arnold Schoenberg Prize, the 2010 Prince Pierre Foundation Music Award and the 2017 Wihuri Sibelius Prize. In 2021, Chin became the first Asian to receive Denmark’s prestigious Leonie Sonning Music Prize and was also named as an honorary member of the American Academy o...

K-pop girl group aespa swept up three prizes at the 19th Korean Music Awards, achieving a milestone as the rookie group with the most number of prizes at the awards. At the annual music awards ceremony held at Nodeul Live House on Nodeul Island, central Seoul, Tuesday, the quartet took home the song of the year award for its megahit “Next Level,” which dropped May last year. “Next Level” also w...

South Korean pianist Cho Seong-jin stepped in to replace Russian pianist Denis Matsuev, whose performances Friday at Carnegie Hall in New York were canceled following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Carnegie Hall announced Friday that Cho would join the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Canadian conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin for that evening’s program, performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concert...

Two leading Korean guitarists from the genres of classical and Latin jazz will meet for a live duet performance this spring. Titled as “Two Guitars,” classical guitarist Park Kyu-hee and Spanish jazz guitarist Park Ju-won will perform together at the Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul’s Songpa-gu on March 17, performance agency MusicandArtCompany announced Friday. This will be the duo’s second appearan...

South Korea’s hip-hop artist Choiza of Dynamic Duo is set to make a solo debut with his first EP, “Jaeho,” at 6 p.m. on Friday, according to the artist’s agency Amoeba Culture. It will mark the rapper’s first step as a solo musician, about 20 years after his debut as a member of hip-hop trio CB Mass in 2000. The title of the album “Jaeho” is Choiza’s first name. The upcoming EP will talk about ...

Wry singer-songwriter returns as solo artist with ‘Levitation’