NMK <NEUE MUSIK aus KOREA> is an innovative project for Korean contemporary music which is focused on fusion of Korean and Western music. Based on innovation and a spirit of challenge for new music, we are expanding our range of activities toward the world stage.
In 2015 Berlin, a contemporary music series <Neue Musik Korea++> held concerts for Korean composers and Asian young woman composers and supported by Arts Council Korea, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf in Brandenburg and Korean Culture Center in Berlin.
The project for Korean contemporary music is conducted continuously in Darmstadt in 2016 where the project featured with German composer & conductor Hans Zender and supported by German Music Council (Edition zeitgenössische Musik), Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt and Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Frankfurt.
In 2019 December, Ensemble NMK(Neue Musik aus Korea) was invited to perform at 1st. Berlin Korean New Music Festival in Berliner Konzerthaus. The Ensemble consists of 12 young talented Korean young musicians with various instruments, include Korean traditional instrument 해금(Haegum) and 생황(Sheng).
In 2020-21, NMK is further discover Korean New music in Korea, such as the performance of the “With a New Song” to the 100th anniversary of the March 1st Movement by the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, and the performance of Korean Opera “Woman with a Fan” in harmony with Korean traditional fan-dance, pansori, and Eastern/Western music. NMK works a collaboration project between Korean new music and jazz “Fusion Soul” with jazz artist Karlton E. Hester in San Francisco U.S. In addition, NMK hosts 2021 Seoul International On-line Composition Festival “RE-CREATE” with the support of the Seoul Metropolitan Government.
In 2022, NMK and BUAP University have signed an MOU for mid- to long-term exchanges of creative music that the project is named as “KOR-MEX Contemporary Music 2030”. The Ensemble NMK has performed at the Musikverein Wien, Brahms-Hall in December 2022, where they have collaborated with Austrian and Korean composers for 130th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Austria and Korea.