@article{ART003168465},
author={Yoon-young Cho},
title={Pianist Koh Pong-Kyung’s Musical Activities and Life},
journal={Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology},
year={2024},
volume={32},
number={2},
pages={33-67},
doi={10.34303/mscol.2024.32.2.002}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yoon-young Cho
TI - Pianist Koh Pong-Kyung’s Musical Activities and Life
JO - Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology
PY - 2024
VL - 32
IS - 2
PB - The Korean Society for Musicology
SP - 33
EP - 67
AB - Koh Pong-kyung (Gladys Koh, 1906~?), a female pianist born in Kyungsung in 1906, studied at Kyungsung Girls’ High School and Ewha Womans University, and studied in the U.S. to perform various activities.
However, she was only known as a pianist of the Jungang Music Association, which is referred to as Korea’s first orchestra.
Koh Pong-kyung was born into a faithful Christian family. Koh Pong-kyung’s family was a chapel in Sorae Church, Korea’s first church, and was a family that not only played an important role in Korean Christianity but also produced many independence activists, including Kim Maria. His father, Koh Myung-woo, who married in 1906 at the officiating of H. G. Underwood, and his mother, Kim Sera, emphasized Confucianism and patriotism and national movements, the traditions of the nation, while providing religious and modern education to their children. As a result, Koh Pong-kyung did not go to mission school when he was a child but received Japanese education at a government-run school. Even after going to Ewha to receive professional music education, he did not remain as Ewha’s daughter, but experienced a bigger world in the United States, managed his younger sister, Koh Hwang-kyung, and ‘Kyungsung Jamaewon’, and worked for the country and the people.
Throughout Koh Pong-kyung’s life, it can be confirmed that her life was not limited to individual music activities, but she wanted to live a life devoted to Christianity and the nation by using music as a means of enlightenment for society and women in a broad sense.
KW - Koh Pong-Kyung;Koh Hwang-Kyung;Koh Myung-Woo;Wesleyan Conservatory;Kyungsung Jamaewon
DO - 10.34303/mscol.2024.32.2.002
ER -
Yoon-young Cho. (2024). Pianist Koh Pong-Kyung’s Musical Activities and Life. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, 32(2), 33-67.
Yoon-young Cho. 2024, "Pianist Koh Pong-Kyung’s Musical Activities and Life", Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, vol.32, no.2 pp.33-67. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2024.32.2.002
Yoon-young Cho "Pianist Koh Pong-Kyung’s Musical Activities and Life" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 32.2 pp.33-67 (2024) : 33.
Yoon-young Cho. Pianist Koh Pong-Kyung’s Musical Activities and Life. 2024; 32(2), 33-67. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2024.32.2.002
Yoon-young Cho. "Pianist Koh Pong-Kyung’s Musical Activities and Life" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 32, no.2 (2024) : 33-67.doi: 10.34303/mscol.2024.32.2.002
Yoon-young Cho. Pianist Koh Pong-Kyung’s Musical Activities and Life. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, 32(2), 33-67. doi: 10.34303/mscol.2024.32.2.002
Yoon-young Cho. Pianist Koh Pong-Kyung’s Musical Activities and Life. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology. 2024; 32(2) 33-67. doi: 10.34303/mscol.2024.32.2.002
Yoon-young Cho. Pianist Koh Pong-Kyung’s Musical Activities and Life. 2024; 32(2), 33-67. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2024.32.2.002
Yoon-young Cho. "Pianist Koh Pong-Kyung’s Musical Activities and Life" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 32, no.2 (2024) : 33-67.doi: 10.34303/mscol.2024.32.2.002
