One of the highlights for the Korean Cultural Festival Boston is where two great solo instrumental pieces are performed side by side, one representing the Western classical music and the other, Korean gayageum performance. Yu Mi plays J. S. Bach's Prelude from his great cello solo suite No. 3 followed by Han TeRra, the gayageum virtuoso, who performs the Gayageum Sanjo Piece. After playing the solo pieces, they also collaborate on an exotic arrangement of the Sarabande from Bach's Suite No. 5 transcribed for cello and gayageum. Other highlights included the experimental group Paintbrush Orchestra (Yeonathan Shachar, conductor) performing original pieces against the backdrop of the video work by the famed avant-garde artist Nam June Paik. The concert closed with the exuberant version of Arirang, arranged and conducted by Eunhye Jung with participation of most of the performers for the evening. 

Korean Cultural Festival Boston 10.2013 - Scenes from Rehearsals

Re-enactment of the traditional Korean wedding ceremony

Paintbrush Orchestra (Yeonathan Satcher, director) rehearsing against the video footage of the great Korean-born video art pioneer Nam June Paik

Yu Mi Bae performing Prelude from Solo Cello Suite No. 3 by J. S. Bach

Eunhye Jung leading KCF ensemble performing Arirang

Yu Mi Bae sitting in with the Paintbrush Orchestra during the rehearsal

Han TeRra, the Korean gayageum virtuoso