Tongyeong Contemporary Music Festival
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Tongyeong Contemporary Music Festival is known as an archetype of Tongyeong International Music Festival
. It was held in Tongyeong
, Korea, within almost the same prospectus as in TIMF, including the spirit to commemorate Isang Yun
, a renowned composer who was born in Tongyeong
.
This festival took place in 2000 and 2001. Isang Yun's disciples are known as the initiating organizers of this festival, and they were encouraged by the success of a singular concert titled 'Night of Isang Yun's Music' which was held in 1999. Based upon this success, they wanted to develop it into a new form of a music festival
with a series of concerts for consecutive days.
Two years' festivals were found to be very successful, and this success enabled Tongyeong citizens to dream of a more developed format of a music festival. Their public opinions eventually moved the municipal government and other related institutions to call for the required budget and form a legal entity to manage the developed version of the festival.
The development became Tongyeong International Music Festival
, while TIMF Foundation was established to take charge of managing TIMF.
TIMF
TIMF is an abbreviated title of Tongyeong International Music Festival . It covers the title of the event concerned and at the same time, a wide umbrella of diversified business branches within categories of the event concerned....
. It was held in Tongyeong
Tongyeong
Tongyeong is a coastal city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. In 2010, it had an area of 238.81 ㎢ and a population of 139,869 people. It is divided into 1 eup , 6 myeon and 11 dong . Chungmu city and Tongyeong county were reunited in 1995, creating Tongyeong City as we know it today...
, Korea, within almost the same prospectus as in TIMF, including the spirit to commemorate Isang Yun
Isang Yun
Isang Yun was a Korean-German composer originally from Korea. According to his official publisher's Boosey & Hawkes biography of him, he was granted political asylum by West Germany, eventually becoming a naturalised German citizen, following his abduction and torture in 1967 by the South Korean...
, a renowned composer who was born in Tongyeong
Tongyeong
Tongyeong is a coastal city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. In 2010, it had an area of 238.81 ㎢ and a population of 139,869 people. It is divided into 1 eup , 6 myeon and 11 dong . Chungmu city and Tongyeong county were reunited in 1995, creating Tongyeong City as we know it today...
.
This festival took place in 2000 and 2001. Isang Yun's disciples are known as the initiating organizers of this festival, and they were encouraged by the success of a singular concert titled 'Night of Isang Yun's Music' which was held in 1999. Based upon this success, they wanted to develop it into a new form of a music festival
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
with a series of concerts for consecutive days.
Two years' festivals were found to be very successful, and this success enabled Tongyeong citizens to dream of a more developed format of a music festival. Their public opinions eventually moved the municipal government and other related institutions to call for the required budget and form a legal entity to manage the developed version of the festival.
The development became Tongyeong International Music Festival
TIMF
TIMF is an abbreviated title of Tongyeong International Music Festival . It covers the title of the event concerned and at the same time, a wide umbrella of diversified business branches within categories of the event concerned....
, while TIMF Foundation was established to take charge of managing TIMF.