Friday, January 14, 2011

Pansori maestro Ahn Sookseon wants to perform with SNSD


One of the most popular educators of Korean traditional music, Ahn Sookseon expressed her desire to perform with SNSD.

On KBS 2TV’s ‘Free Time’ aired on January 13th, Ahn Sookseon commented, “I have seen SNSD’s performances. They are pretty and they performed well”.

She added, “I want to introduce and present our music to SNSD, as well as teaching them Pansori (a genre of Korean traditional music)”.

Maestro of Samul nori (a genre of Korean traditional percussion music), Kim Duksoo who was also present at the broadcast broke his silence, “Definitely. However, nowadays young people are not interesting in our music”.

Ahn Sookseon who was born in a family of traditional music lovers was appointed as the Art Director for the National Changguk Team in 1997. She also gave lectures at Yongin University in 1998 and Korea National University of Arts in 2000.

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