About DCMF
Daegu
International Contemporary Music Festival (DCMF),
organized by the Young Musician’s Society, is celebrating its 24th
year. The Young Musician’s Society was established by Jin, Kyu Young, a
professor at the Yeungnam University, along with several professors and
students from Seoul, Daegu, and other cities, to get a better understanding of
contemporary music and to mutually exchange musical information. The society
has met regularly to plan the event and it hosted the 1st Daegu
Contemporary Music Festival in 1990. (The official name was changed to “Daegu
International Contemporary music Festival” in 2001.)
The annual DCMF has provided many
opportunities to understand the composition patterns of various composers. It
also discovered many unknown talented and young composers and gave them a
chance to present concerts and study abroad.
The DCMF has shown that a regional city
such as Daegu has the potential to host an international music festival by
inviting world premier composers such as renowned Polish composer, Krzysztof Penderecki
and providing high quality contemporary music. Currently, the DCMF exchanges
with China, but German performers and composers participated every other year.
The communication and exchange between
the musicians from various regions through these festivals not only resolves
the regional differences between Seoul and provincial cities, but also enables Daegu
be widely known in Germany, the United States, Japan, Poland, Hungary, Canada,
and elsewhere as a creative city.
The Daegu International Contemporary
Music Festival has grown in popularity and recognition during 24years though
active public relations with several newspapers, music magazines, broadcasters,
and the Internet. Also, the committee members of the festival make plans for
the next year’s festival during its annual winter seminar.
This summer the
society has been the leader among the contemporary music organizations in Korea
and it has promoted contemporary music for last 23 years. It consists of more
than 20 composers in and out of Korea and they participate in various
activities, like at least two regular concerts, seminars, as well as publishing
and recording music.
Many prominent ensemble groups, like Het trio of Europe, Modern Ensemble, Airef String Quartet , Duo Nova of Japan, Trio-Rosenstock of Germany, WALASEK String Quartet of Poland, New Music Ensemble, as well as L'ART POUR L'ART of Germany and Players, like Thomas Grossenbacher, Keiko Tamura, Malke Reisener, P.Veale, Igor Nazarov, Taishi Haarada Yoshiki Nose, Takashi Saito, Anja Wetzki, Christine Stojantschew have performed for the society and have worked together with performers of the society for better understanding and researching of contemporary music. And We have invited many guest composers, like Jörg Birkenkötter, Gunter Steinke, Jo Kondo, Pagh-Paan Younghi , Krzysztof Penderecki, Jia Guoping, Tom Johnson to Festival.
Many prominent ensemble groups, like Het trio of Europe, Modern Ensemble, Airef String Quartet , Duo Nova of Japan, Trio-Rosenstock of Germany, WALASEK String Quartet of Poland, New Music Ensemble, as well as L'ART POUR L'ART of Germany and Players, like Thomas Grossenbacher, Keiko Tamura, Malke Reisener, P.Veale, Igor Nazarov, Taishi Haarada Yoshiki Nose, Takashi Saito, Anja Wetzki, Christine Stojantschew have performed for the society and have worked together with performers of the society for better understanding and researching of contemporary music. And We have invited many guest composers, like Jörg Birkenkötter, Gunter Steinke, Jo Kondo, Pagh-Paan Younghi , Krzysztof Penderecki, Jia Guoping, Tom Johnson to Festival.
The society also hosts symposiums, chamber
music concerts, like ones for the traditional Korean instruments with Good-Mori
Ensemble, to promote Korean music to the rest of the world.
