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Sunday, July 3 - Friday, July 8
July 3 3:00 pm Preparatory meeting / Class organization
July 4-7 9:30 - 11:00 am Solo-/ Chamber music classes
11:45 am - 1:15 pm Solo-/ Chamber music classes
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Solo-/ Chamber music classes
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Ensemble academy
(conducted ensemble works)
July 8 10:00 am Dress rehearsal
7:30 pm Ensemble Concert with students
ANNOUNCEMENT
In July 2005 the Tongyeong International Music Festival Foundation will present the International Isang
Yun Academy 2005  to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Isang Yun (1917 - 1995).
The Academy will be held in Tongyeong, Korea and is presented in joint cooperation with International
Ensemble Modern Academy, Goethe Institut, International Isang Yun Society and Ensemble Modern.

The focus of the Academy will be the study and interpretation of contemporary music in ensemble,
chamber and solo formations. Tuition in the form of supervised rehearsals and individual instrumental
master classes will be given by members of the Ensemble Modern and presented in the final concert.
PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
The INTERNATIONAL ISANG YUN ACADEMY is open to advanced music students and professional
musicians of any nationality. All participants are chosen by Ensemble Modern upon receipt of the
application forms and recordings.
• Age limits:
- Scholarship Students: under 30 with Asian nationality
- Active participants: no age limit
• Official language of the academy: English / German
SECTIONS
• Instrumentalists
- flute/piccolo, oboelish horn, clarinet/bass clarinet, saxophone, bassoon
- french horn, trumpet, trombone
- percussion, piano
- violin, viola, violoncello, double bass
• Composers
• Conductors
REPERTOIRE
Solo and chamber music repertoire: will be announced after the selection procedure.
Ensemble repertoire: Ensemble Modern and instrumentalists will work together in the evenings on the
following ensemble repertoire:
• GUSTAV MAHLER / ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (1920)
• ISANG YUN
Impression fur kleines Orchester (1986)
• Works by the participating composers
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATION
April 23, 2005 ("in-office" deadline, not postmark deadline).
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
• Application Form (download)
• Curriculum vitae (with contact address) and photo
• Additional Documents/Material
A) Conductors: A page of text explaining the applicant's motivation for wishing to attend this course
B) Composers: A score of one of the applicant's compositions
C) Instrumentalists: Recording (CD) of one FREE REPORTOIRE plus one CONTEMPORARY SOLO PIECE
    composed after 1950
COURSE FEE
• Scholarship Student: There is no fee for scholarship students.
• Active participation: 700,000 KRW. It covers the cost of accommodation and meals.
  (passive participants would only pay for the specific date(s) they wish to attend)
• The master classes and the concerts are open to the public.
※ Please send your application to:
TONGYEONG INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL FOUNDATION
2F, Seocho Shinhwa BD., 1451-19 Seocho 3 Dong, Seocho Gu, Seoul, Korea (137-867)
Phone: +82 2 3474 8315
Fax: +82 2 3474 8318

If you have any question, please email to: academy@timf.org
PRESENTED BY
In cooperation with
GYEONGNAM PROVINCE, MASAN MBC, TONGYEONG CITY,
KOREAN CULTURE AND ARTS FOUNDATION, KULTURSTIFTUNG DES BUNDES
"A composer can not view the world in which he lives with indifference.
Human suffering, oppression, injustice…all that comes to me in my thoughts.
Where there is pain, where there is injustice, I want to have a say through
my music." (Isang Yun, 1983)

Isang Yun's oeuvre is based on the flexible, lively tone of his native country's
traditional music. Integrating dodecaphony and "developing variation" into his
own "main-tone technique", he also stands in the European tradition.
His composing manner blends eastern and western elements into a unique
personal style, into an art of gliding transition in the spirit of Tao.

Isang Yun was born on September 19, 1917 near the south-eastern seaport Tongyeong, at a time when the
Korea was under Japanese occupation. Yun took part in the resistance against Japan, and in 1943, he was
imprisoned and tortured. After receiving the Seoul City Culture Award in 1955, he was able to study in Paris
and Berlin from 1956 to 1959. In Berlin, he studied with former Schoenberg-disciple Josef Rufer, learning how
to compose "with twelve tones which are only related to one another". From Germany, Yun was able to
establish contact with the international avant-garde.

His Buddhist oratorio Om mani padme hum net with broad resonance in 1965, and the premiere of the
orchestral Reak at the Donaueschingen Festival in 1966 lead to his international breakthrough. Yun was
abducted to Seoul by the Korean secret police in 1967, was tortured and charged with high treason.
In a political show trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the first instance, but released in 1969
after international protests. In 1971 he became a German citizen.

Yun taught composition at the Hochschule der Kuenste Berlin from 1970 to 1985, from 1974 as a professor.
His oeuvre includes over a hundred works, among them four operas and a number of instrumental
concertos. During the 1980s he composed a series of five major, interrelated symphonies; in that period Yun
developed a new intonation also in his chamber works, which are characterized by the striving for harmony
and peace. At the same time, reconciliation on Korea was hit political goal.

Isang Yun died in Berlin on November 3, 1995, and was interred in a tomb of honour provided by the City
Senate. He was a member of the Hamburg and Berlin Academies of the Arts and of the European Academy
of the Arts and Science in Salzburg, an honorary member of the International Society of Contemporary
Music, the holder of an honorary doctor's degree from the University of Tuebingen, and the recipient of the
Goethe Medal of the Goethe Institute in Munich and the Distinguished Service Cross of the Order of Merit
of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In Berlin, the composer's friends and interpreters founded the International Isang Yun Society in 1996,
aiming to keep his memory and work alive. The society's tasks will include the passing on of the
performance-practice of his music and supporting research on subjects related to his life and work. Within
this context it will offer performance-practice courses, concerts, symposia, publications and establish an
Isang Yun Archive.

www.yun-gesellschaft.de
Ensemble Modern (EM) was founded in 1980 and belongs to
the world's leading ensembles for contemporary music.
Since 1985 it is located in Frankfurt/Main. The EM consists of
19 soloists from different nations: Argentina, Australia,
Bulgaria, Germany, Great Britain, India, Japan, Poland and
Switzerland make up the cultural background of this
formation. In 1987 EM became a civil law association, which
means that the musicians are shareholders and thus the
owners of the 'Ensemble Modern company". And it also
means that the members of the ensemble jointly bear the financial risk and the artistic responsibility
involved. There is no artistic director or chief conductor: the programmes are planned and decisions about
conductors and possible guest soloists are taken democratically. The EM's programs and concert activities
include music theatre, dance and video projects, chamber music, ensemble and also orchestra concerts.
Tours brought the EM already to Russia, South America, the USA, Japan, Australia, India and in 2003 for the
first time to Korea and Taiwan.

The EM does about 100 concerts a year. In close collaboration with the composers, trying to achieve
the best possible results, the musicians work each year on about 70 new works, among them more then
20 premieres. In 2003 theEnsemble Modern was declared a "lighthouse" of contemporary culture in
Germany. Thus from 2004 on the Ensemble Modern receives for five years financial support for two of its
important projects: Ensemble Modern Orchestra and International Ensemble Modern Academy.

The Ensemble Modern Orchestra (EMO) was founded in 1998 especially for performing largely cast works.
As the first orchestra worldwide it is dedicated to the music of the 20th and 21st century. It only gathers for
specific projects, i.e. around the basis of the Ensemble Modern's soloists more specialists for
contemporary music and young musicians from all over the world come together once or twice a year to
form the EMO. The International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) - one of the most important projects of
the EM for the future - was founded in the summer of 2003, to deal with contemporary music in its many
form in research and teaching, to make the EM's musical experience and competence available for a
younger generation.

The IEMA's work includes IEMA scholarships for musicians from Germany, supported by the German
Federal Cultural Foundation and the Kunststiftung NRW; master courses at the Klangspuren festival in
Schwaz, Austria; a summer academy in Greece in co-operation with the Paxos Spring Festival.
The Ensemble Modern is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and through the Deutsche
Ensemble Akademie by the City of Frankfurt, the State of Hessia, the GEMA Foundation (foundation of the
society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights) and the GVL (collecting society for
performing artists, producers and promoters). hr2 (Hessischer Rundfunk Radio 2) is media partner of
Ensemble Modern.

www.ensemble-modern.com
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