TONGYEONG, South Gyeongsang - This year, Tongyeong is in a celebratory mood as it marks the 100th birthday of internationally renowned Korean composer Isang Yun (1917-95), whose hometown is this port ...

The honor of winning the cello category at the 2025 Isang Yun International Music Competition went to cellist Lee Yubin. The Tongyeong International Music Foundation announced on November 9 that Lee ...

I Soo-ja, 80, wife of the late maestro composer Isang Yun (1917-1995), has returned home Tuesday for the first time in 40 years since being kidnapped here together with her husband from Germany by the ...

Internationally celebrated composer Isang Yun (1917-1995) finally returned home, although in ashes, arriving at Gimhae Airport on Sunday afternoon. “Last Friday in Berlin, we witnessed a historical ...

This Sunday marks a century since the birth of Isang Yun (1917-95). The Korean-born composer acquired his reputation in the 1950s and ’60s, refocusing post-World War II atonal modernism through a lens ...

Han Jae-min, a 16-year-old cellist, took home first prize from the International Isang Yun Competition on Saturday at the Tongyeong Concert Hall, South Gyeongsang Province. Earlier last week, the four ...

Though the Korean composer Isang Yun (1917-95) certainly had a fondness for the sound of the accordion, and the way in which it could be used to modulate the envelope of a sound, he did not compose a ...

In celebration of the 90th birthday of the late Isang Yun (1917-1995), the 2007 Isang Yun Festival... Late composer Isang Yun in Berlin, 1970. Courtesy of Isang Yun Peace Foundation In celebration of ...

Korean cellists Lee Sang-eun and Lee Jeong-hyoun won first prize at Isang Yun Competition 2018, Tongyeong International Music Foundation announced Saturday. Third prize went to Russian cellist Lev ...

The concertina rarely features in classical music outside the work of Astor Piazzolla or Pauline Oliveiros, and its use alongside strings in these four pieces is indicative of the Korean composer ...