Park Jiha (KR) and Brìghde Chaimbeul (UK)
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South Korean composer and multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha enchants. With traditional instruments such as the saenghwang, the piri and yanggeum, she creates a dreamy world, a rich musical fantasy on the cusp of old and new. Park Jiha plays with different atmospheres in which ambient sounds and minimal stillness contrast with intense bursts of sound. Her music is akin to neoclassical composers such as Nils Frahm.
Park Jiha extends her musical South Korean heritage to create a new, emotional language full of unconventional sounds, images and beauty. She released a new solo album with The Gleam this spring.
Brìghde Chaimbeul (UK)
Scottish Brìghde Chaimbeul won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2016. She was nominated in the ‘Up and Coming’ category at the Scots Trad Music Awards in 2017, and in 2019, she won the BBC Radio 2 Horizon Awards.
Her Scottish-Gaelic name is pronounced as Bree-Chu (as in ‘church’) Campbell. She was raised on the Isle of Skye, where she was introduced to bagpipe music by living legend Rona Lightfoot. From the age of seven, she started playing bagpipe herself. She developed a style rooted in the Gaelic language and culture. She later found inspiration in Brittany, Ireland and Eastern Europe.
She received numerous enthusiastic reviews for her album The Reeling.
Just to say: things move fast for Scottish “smallpipe” player Brìghde Chaimbeul. It is not without reason that artists such as Sam Amidon, Colin Stetson and Anna von Hausswolff have expressed their love for her work.
