New Year's Concert, Seoul Arts Center

4 January 2011

New Year's Concert, Seoul Arts Center

I was invited to go to a musical concert which many important and famous Koreans will be going. It is the New Year's Concert to be held in the most prestigious Concert Hall in Korea - Seoul Arts Center in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea.

Thanks to my participation to G20 which allowed me to win an essay writing contest on my volunteer experiences, this was the source of my invitation for this concert.

When I arrived there, I was surprised as most of the audiences are the elders. Not much are from my same age group. But in any case, it is the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. The conductor, most of the lead singers all studied from other countries such as Germany, France, Italy, USA, etc.

with some newscaster

 

Spot President Lee Myung Back in the photo

The audience

An actor whom I do not know the name...

Newscaster

Athlete or Figure Skater....?

The whole 200 musicians in the New Year's Concert

They played and sang the following:

1. Of course, the Korean National Anthem

2. Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (A. Dvorak)

3. Merce dilette amiche (G. Verdi)

4. Fuor del mar (W.A. Mozart)

5. Brindisi (Verdi)

6. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (L. V. Beethoven)

Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung

Tenor: Alfred Kim

Soprano: Eun-Joo Park, Myung-Joo Lee

Mezzo Soprano: Jae-Eun Paik

Baritone: Locky Chung

Chorale

There were around 100 instrumentalists and around 120 singers for the chorus and 5 solo singers. They were simply amazing!

Lee Byung Hun / 이병헌
This is the only photo he was able to have that night. He did not allowed more photos to be taken with other people... Too bad..

12:48am Korea Time
5 January 2011
Karina Chua