TORI Ensemble at the 2011 WOMAD Charlton Park

Festival title : 2011 WOMAD Charlton Park

Date : 31st(Sun), July 2011, 12:15 pm

Venue : “Charlie Gillett Stage” in Charlton Park, Malmesbury

Artist : TORI Ensemble / HEO Yoon-jeong(geomun-go), KANG Kwon-soon(jeongga), MIN Young-chi(daegum&janggu), LEE Suk-joo(piri)

Support : Ministry of Culture, Sport, Tourism / Korea Arts Management Service

Website : http://womad.org/festivals/charlton-park

TORI Ensemble is world music project ensemble which was founded in 2007 with HEO Yoon-jeong(geomun-go) and other Korean traditional artists such as KANG Kwon-soon(jeongga), MIN Young-chi(daegum&janggu) and American free jazz artists Ned Rothenberg(clarinet& saxophone), Satoshi Takeishi(percussion), Erik Friedlander(cello). They perform in Korea and abroad actively as TORI Ensemble, which now consists of 4 Korean Traditional Musicians by scouting LEE Suk-joo(piri) in 2010, and TORI Project, which is with American free jazz artists.

The word tori derives from saturi (meaning dialect), a musical term denoting “local style” in Korean traditional music. The group aims to seek a new sound that can internalize a variety of tori in traditional music, as well as harmonize with other toris in world music. It especially focuses on improvisation as an important aspect of Korean traditional music and attempts to create a unique language through Asian intuition and musical idiom.