KNIGA Students Showcase Artistic Brilliance in Year-End Concert at K-Arts 

Celebrating the end of the year, the students of the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts (KNIGA) who study Korean traditional arts gave a subscription concert on Saturday, 16 December on the Seokgwan-dong campus. The KNIGA is the first national institution for gifted in arts education established in 2008 by the Ministry of the Culture, Sports, and Tourism of Korea. Those with potential in music, dance, Korean traditional arts, and integrated arts are selected as students.

Made up of current students of Korean traditional arts classes in the KNIGA, this year’s subscription concert demonstrated the talents of the future leaders of South Korea’s traditional arts and culture. The program consisted of 7 works that showed the aesthetical essence of the Korean traditional arts. On the program list are the wind ensemble, “Sujecheon,” an ensembled project of singing, dancing, and playing instruments, “Flower Way,” a piece of traditional vocal music called Jeongga (noble singing of Joseon Dynasty), “Yeochang gagok Gyemyeongo Gyeryak,” a piece of instrumental music featuring daegeum, “Cheongseongjajinhanip,” “Chunaengjeon,” Sogo dance, tightrope walking, and Samulpangut.

The concert also set an example of promoting quality education for gifted in arts by implementing an outstanding arts educational infrastructure of K-Arts and constructing a national system for discovering and fostering early talents.