Bo-Sung Kim
Percussion
was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in Berlin.
As a child she discovered her passion for Korean percussion and after finishing school she went to Korea to study Traditional Performing Arts at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul, specializing in percussion, mask dance and shamanic ritual music.
Bo-Sung Kim has been living and working as a freelance musician in
Berlin since 2006 and has since worked in many different music and
performance projects. The question "What is tradition?" and the constant
search for her own musical expression accompany her in her musical
work.
Bo-Sung Kim plays in various formations such as Ensemble
AY, which is dedicated to exploring new worlds of sound through free
improvisation, in Ensemble GaMuAk with traditional Korean music and
dance repertoires, in Ensemble INklang, which develops new
interpretations of traditional Korean music in a contemporary context,
and in Ensemble ~su, which currently works with musicians such as Laura
Robles, Sol-I So, Gunda Gottschalk, Saadet Türköz, Ute Völker, Peter
Ehwald, Halym Kim and others.
Bo-Sung Kim teaches Korean percussion at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and at the Korean Cultural Center Berlin.