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After acclaimed South Korean cellist Bong-Ihn Koh ’08 finished performing Isang Yun’s cello concerto in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Friday night, a crowd of 30 girls surrounded his bus—but all they could do was wave good...
After two years of waiting, South Korean cellist Bong-Ihn Koh ’08 will finally get to play alongside a North Korean orchestra in Pyongyang today...
...have diverse, gifted musicians here who collaborate all the time,” said Bong-Ihn Koh ’08, a cellist enrolled in a joint degree program with Harvard and the New England Conservatory (NEC). Saxophonist Alex J. Rezzo, another participant in the program, agreed. “What I really like about the Harvard side of the [Harvard-NEC] program is it seems like the musicians are creating their own opportunities to play...
...Bong Ihn Koh ’08 might have picked up the cello at the age of seven and started his international career at the age of 12, but the winner of the 2008 Louis Sudler Prize ultimately does not want to be remembered as a great cellist. Rather than being famous merely for his skill with the strings, Koh dreams that, at the end of his career, he will be known as “an artist who used his talent as a musician to really change things.” Yes, Koh is not your average cello prodigy...
Three years ago, Bong-Ihn Koh ’08 found himself asking a bleary-eyed and baffled hotel receptionist in Tokyo to fax his organic chemistry problem set at 4:30 a.m. to his TF back in Cambridge, where his 5 p.m. deadline was approaching...