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Cho Gyeong-hui
  • FieldMusic / Korea Traditional narrative song base on an agricultural people
  • CountryKorea

 

A Registered Famous vocalist specializing in a farmers’ narrative song played traditionally in the Goyang-Songpo region of Gyeonggi- do, named Goyang-SongpHomi-geoli

 

1.Designated as the instructor for Goyang Songpo Homi-geoli, Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 22 of Gyeonggi-do (2001)

2. Honored with a Prime Minister’ s Prize at the 2001 National Folk Arts Festival, ‘Yongguje Imugije’

3. Awarded the Individual Prize of the Minister of Culture and Tourism (2001)

4.Performance tour to three provinces (Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin) in China

5. Authored a DVD instructional manual for the song (2006)

6. Master‘s degree study of Korean Music, Graduate School of Culture & Art at Dongguk University

7. Currently, Chairperson of Goyang Songpo Homi- geoli Preservation Committee of Goyang Songpo Homi-geoli, President of Goyang Gawaji Art Troupe