Gum Nanse
| Nanse Gum | |
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| Born |
Kim Nanse 25 September 1947 Busan, South Korea |
| Nationality | South Korea |
| Occupation | Conductor |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 금난새 |
| Revised Romanization | Geum Nansae |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kŭm Nansae |
Gum Nanse, (born 25 September 1947) is a South Korea conductor. In 1977, he was the first Korean to win the prize at the Herbert von Karajan Conductors' Competition in Berlin. He is currently general director and artistic director of the Seongnam Philharmonic Orchestra and Hankyung Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also the founder and artistic director of New World Philharmonic Orchestra. He currently serves as the Principal of Seoul Arts High School.
Gum was born in Busan, is the son of Suhyun Gum who was a composer and music educator. He studied music at Seoul Arts High School and studied musical composition at Seoul National University. He also studied conducting at the Universität der Künste in Berlin under Prof. Hans-Martin Rabenstein.
In 1977, Gum was one of the prize winners (4th prize) at the ‘Herbert von Karajan Conductor's Competition and was the first Korean conductor to be given an opportunity to conduct Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Since returning home in 1980, he was appointed as the conductor of KBS Symphony Orchestra for 12 years.
In 1992, he moved to Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra. At that time Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra was a struggling ensemble and had difficulties attracting audiences to their concerts. Gum concentrated on improving the quality of the performance and on refreshing orchestra's image.
While he was in Suwon, Gum organized a series of special concerts with Suwon Philharmonic such as ‘7-hour Marathon Concert' and 'New Year's Eve Concert at Seoul Arts Center'. Also, Gum began a new educative concert series for young students in collaboration with Seoul Arts Center in 1994 titled, 'Young People's Concerts with Gum Nanse'. The concerts were particularly popular among young students and the concerts remained sold-out for six consecutive years from 1994 to 1999.
During Gum's appointment as artistic director, Suwon Philharmonic's number of concerts increased from about 10 concerts per year to more than 60 concerts per year. Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra’s turnaround soon gathered media’s attention and in 1995, Samsung Electronics(headquartered in Suwon) built a new outdoor concert hall and rehearsal facilities for Suwon City and Suwon Philharmonic. Samsung Electronics also sponsored Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra for five years and its overseas tours in US, Canada, UK, Spain, Thailand (for 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok) for three years.
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