School of Music Presents a Performance at Invitation of the 2022 Beethoven Easter Festival in Poland

At 8 PM on Tuesday, 29 March, at the Lotte Concert Hall, the School of Music presented the 73rd KNUA Symphony Orchestra’s subscription concert with Beethoven Easter Festival in Poland. The concert date of 29 March was the death date of the world's eminent Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki who deceased two years ago. Since 1997 when the handwritten music by Beethoven was found in post-WWII Poland, Penderecki arranged the Beethoven Easter Festival during his living years.

The Korean Cultural Center (KCC) in Poland sponsored this event. With conductor Chung Chiyong, the orchestra performed the Mahler Symphony No. 5, IV. Adagietto, to commemorate Penderecki, who composed Symphony No. 5 Korea and premiered it himself in Seoul at a request by the late Lee O-young, the first Minister of Culture in Korea. Meanwhile, they will present Symphony No. 5 Korea in Warsaw next year. In the 2nd part of the event, pianist Sohn Min-soo collaborated with the orchestra and played the Beethoven Piano Concert No. 4. This program, which leads to Beethoven Symphony No. 6 Pastorale, will be presented online in April at the Beethoven Easter Festival in Poland, one of the largest classical music festivals in Europe, at the invitation. In 2023, there will also be another concert in Warsaw scheduled.