Professor Roland Breitenfeld (Dept. of Composition)
Professor Roland Breitenfeld (Department of Composition) has been teaching computer music and electronic music at SNU since 2006. He has worked on digitalizing Korean music, by computerizing the sound of Korean traditional instruments such as the janggu, gayageum and haegeum. He has also composed many pieces of music for the buildings and sculptures of Seoul. Professor Breitenfeld stated in an interview that the music he plays is closely related to the places where it is played, and that he likes “very small villages” like Hyeri near the city of Paju. Currently, he is composing a four-act opera based on Saint-Exupery’s book The Little Prince. The opera will be performed in both German and Korean, and will be premiered at the Seoul Opera House this September.
- Professor Roland Breitenfeld: http://www.breitenfeld-net.de/
- SNU Dept. of Composition: http://music.snu.ac.kr/eng/academics/composition/1259609_22030.jsp
Summary by LEE Hee Un, SNU English Editor, gurume0221@snu.ac.kr