At the Lee Kang Sook Hall located in K-Arts Seocho Campus on 22 July, the Korea National Institute for Gifted in Arts (KNIGA) under the K-Arts hosted the 19^th KNIGA Symphony Orchestra’s subscription concert. Taking place four years after the COVID-19 pandemic, the concert was made up of performances by 51 students currently studying music on Seoul campus of KNIGA.

Kim Hyeonseo (13 years old) who studied with the late Prof. Kim Nam Yoon, Prof. Park Subin, and Prof. Kim Seongsuk, and now studying with Prof. Lee Jihye, joined the concert as the youngest performer and played the Wieniawski’s “Violin Concerto No. 1.” In addition, with the direction by conductor Jin Sol, the current resident conductor of Daegu International Symphony Orchestra and the alumna of the School of Music, Suppe’s “Poet and Peasant Overture” and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55, ‘Eroica’” were presented.

The KNIGA, founded in 2008 under the K-Arts, is the prestigious art education institution for prospective art prodigies. It has cultivated world-renowned musicians. For last years, KNIGA has expanded gifted education to provincial areas with local governments, opening three local campuses in Sejong Special Self-Governing City, Geongnam-Tongyeong, and Gwangju Metropolitan City.