Violinist Lim Ji-young has made her way back home after becoming the first Korean violinist to win the highest honor at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium last May, performing Brahms’ Concerto in D, op. 77.　One of the classical world’s big three music competitions, last year’s Queen Elisabeth contest for violin featured 69 players of 20 nationalities, including 17 violinists from Korea. 　“It has been almost a year since winning at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition a

BRIGHTON, U.K. (AFP) - Beating metal filing cabinets, clanging fire extinguishers, rattling shelves and blowing into traffic cones, it's no surprise the musicians of the Lost and Found Orchestra struggle to stay in tune.　“The instruments are rubbish, they don’t stop breaking,” said Luke Cresswell, who cofounded the group that uses everyday objects to create music.　“It is chaos, but we're getting there,” he told AFP as the orchestra rehearsed for a new short tour of France and Russia that begins

From indie to mainstream, musicians hope to showcase diversity of Korean music to global audience

NEW YORK (AFP) - Bjork has revealed that she is working on a new album but, after last year's tortured heartache album “Vulnicura,” this one will be happier.　The Icelandic experimental pop icon said she is working again with Alejandro Ghersi, the Venezuelan DJ better known as Arca, who helped create the beats layered behind the lush strings on “Vulnicura.”　The 2015 album, which came after a four-year gap by Bjork, delved into her emotional journey as she split with her longtime partner, New York

VIENNA (AP) -- Nikolaus Harnoncourt stepped down from the podium last year in the same manner that characterized his work as one of the world’s famous conductors. With style, but without fanfare."Dear public," he wrote Dec. 5. "My physical strength orders me to cancel my future plans." Describing the synergy between him and the audience as leading to an "unusually deep relationship," he said his goodbyes in eight lines in an open letter, simply, elegantly and without pathos.Harnoncourt died Satu

Big Bang, arguably K-pop’s biggest and edgiest boy band, wrapped up its worldwide “MADE” concert series amid much fanfare on Sunday evening at Seoul’s Olympic Stadium.　During the last show of the tour, the five-member boy band performed 19 songs, including some of its most recent releases “Bang Bang Bang” and “Bae Bae,” in addition to the group’s more seasoned hits such as “Fantastic Baby” and “Lies.” 　The members also showcased solo releases, with T.O.P, Taeyang and G-Dragon staging “Doom Dada,

Korean singer-songwriter Hwang Chi-yeul took first place on a season four episode of Chinese music contest show “I Am a Singer,” which aired Friday, said the singer’s agency HOW Entertainment.This is the second time Hwang has taken first place, beating top Chinese stars competing with him.Hwang reinterpreted Park Jin-young’s “Honey” for the eighth episode of the season, inserting Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” in the middle of the song and presenting a dance tribute to Jackson. Korean singer Hw

The Herald Philharmonic Orchestra’s third annual concert took place at Seoul Arts Center, just as the weather began to warm up to welcome spring on Thursday.Headed by conductor Kim Bong-mee, the Herald Phil presented a two-part concert to an audience of roughly 2,300. The first half was mostly a selection of arias performed by three celebrated tenors. The second was a percussion-heavy set. Conductor Kim Bong-mee directs the Herald Philharmonic Orchestra during final rehearsals at the Seoul Arts

B.A.P (TS Entertainment)Hip-hop boy band B.A.P’s world tour schedule was announced on the group’s official Facebook page on Friday. Called “B.A.P LIVE ON EARTH 2016 WORLD TOUR,” the band will visit the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Italy, Russia and New Zealand. The band also recently gave concerts in Seoul from Feb. 20-22 under the theme “Awake,” which referred to their goal of awakening their audience through music.    Schedule for B.A.P`s world tour (TS Entertainment)B.A.P, which debuted in January 2

Actor Park Hae-jin -- who has earned pan-Asian fame with his role as a mysterious male lead in tvN drama “Cheese in the Trap” -- is currently in negotiations to star in JTBC’s upcoming drama, “Man to Man,” according to local reports Friday. Actor Park Hae-jin (OSEN)He was offered the role of the protagonist, a bodyguard in charge of protecting a top star.The actor who will play the celebrity has not been decided yet, but the producers are currently searching for an actor who has great on-screen