Heecurl Kim
(Korea)
Heechurl Kim is a Dean of School of Music at Georgia Central University in the United States. He established Chun-Song Foundation, which is a music foundation in Jeju, and began to hold Jeju International Choir Festival & Symposium and World Youth Choral Festival & Competition in Jeju. As artistic director of both choral festivals, he works hard to invite various and professional choirs from Korea and abroad and to spread out the professional choral education and choral music which including messages through the choral symposium to the society.
World Youth Choral Festival & Competition in Jeju, which held since 2018, has the purpose of cultural exchange through choral music and self-fulfillment through performances of children and youth choirs form Korea and abroad.
About
After he studied abroad, he worked as the conductor of World Vision Korea Children's Choir until 2015. He was recognized his musical ability through having more than 1,000 performances and he is still leading out to publicize the importance of education through choral music for children and youth. He also worked as the artistic director for World Vision Korea Children's Choral Festival until 2015 and has been publicized the importance of choral education through performances and seminar/workshops in abroad. In Jeju, he founded Chun-Song Children's Choir which is included in Chun-Song Foundation and working as the artistic director of the choir.
Besides, he contributed on Korea women's choral music through publishing records and videos which made with Korean composers' music for amateur women's choir.
Also, he trained younger students and conductors as professor of Chung-Ang University music school and others. From 2015 to 2016, he performed as the guest conductor of Shanghai Youth Choir and Hangzhou AIYUE Children's Choir and Women's Choir. Since 2019, he served as a professor of School of Music at Shenyang University in China and he still holds choral seminars for music teachers of elementary and middle school regularly and worked as the lecturer in China.
Currently, he is the artistic director of Jeju International Choir Festival & Symposium, artistic director of World Youth Choral Festival & Competition in Jeju, chair professor of Dalian University of Foreign Languages, board member of Lotte Foundation for Arts, vice-president of Korea Federation for Choral Music, board member of Korea Church Music Association, conductor of Woong's Choir, music director of United Singers, chairman of Chun-Song Foundation, vice-president of UNESCO Jeju association, and choir conductor of Myungsung church. In 2019, he gathered youth from South Korea and North Korea and founded Korea Youth Choir with the purpose of sharing message of peace through singing.
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