Master composers and
innovative pioneers take the
spotlight in the second Master
Concert of the season presented
by the critically acclaimed Key
West Symphony Orchestra, on
January 13th and 14h at the
Tennessee Williams Theatre.
This concert will showcase
the sites and sounds that
have an international flair as
well as musical instruments
rarely heard by those in the
west when Korean percussionist
Jin Hi Kim joins the
Key West Symphony to present
her original composition
Monk Dance, which has been
dazzling audiences with its
performance piece quality.

Jin Hi Kim plays the
komungo — an ancient fretted
bass zither with six silk
strings that are plucked with a
thin bamboo stick. She created
quite a stir at a young age when
she made the audacious decision
to study the komungo, an
instrument which by tradition
was favored by male Confucian
scholars and was generally
not played by women at all.

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