Description
“This music expresses the personality of a composer with Far Eastern roots in a language without any hint of eclectic sound-painting.
Constantly researching, constantly looking for new forms, by concentrating and focusing on what is essential, he has already managed to find a sound very much his own.� (Beat Furrer about Sehyung Kim’s Three Sijo).
Sehyung Kim was born in 1987 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Composition classes began at the age of sixteen and went on to study at the Moscow State Conservatory.
In 2013-2018 studied at the University of the Arts and Performing Arts in Graz (Austria), composition class by prof. Beat Furrer. From 2019 he is a master’s student in composition and musical theatre under prof. Bernhard Lang at the same university in Graz.
Three Sijo was composed in 2016/17 and is scored for woodwind instrument and piano / for saxophone, double bass and piano / for daegeum and piano with e-bow.