#Shin chan song piano notes professional#

Sitting in the cafГ© of SeoulвЂ™s Grand Ambassador hotel, guitarist Han, Sang-won вЂ™88 recalls that when he arrived at Berklee in 1984, he found only two other Korean students on campus. Korean alumni refer to Jung and others who came to Berklee during the 1980s as the вЂњfirst generation.вЂќ The вЂњAncient OnesвЂќ JungвЂ™s positive report on Berklee became widely known to younger Korean musicians thirsty for knowledge about jazz and popular styles.

вЂњBerklee was where I learned to be a musician, educator, and conductor.вЂќ Jung hopes to return to the Berklee campus and warmly acknowledges the influence of faculty members Greg Hopkins, Barry Nettles, Phil Wilson, and Bill Pierce. Recently, Jung studied at New YorkвЂ™s Queens College and taped weekly lectures about his experiences for students back at Seoul Institute of the Arts. In 1988, he became a pioneer in Korean jazz education by offering the first courses in jazz theory at Seoul Institute of the Arts. Like other alumni who followed him to Berklee and returned home, Jung was anxious to share what heвЂ™d learned. For the next 10 years, he led the group in local performances and tours of America, Japan, Europe, and Russia.

In 1995, he was named the conductor of the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) Pops Orchestra.

He became part of the Seoul music scene, appearing regularly at jazz clubs and playing saxophone on some 40 recordings and 50 film scores. He returned to Korea bearing the first copy of the Real Book Korean musicians had ever seen.

#Shin chan song piano notes professional#

Jung earned his degree in professional music by 1983. backing Korean singers when I decided that IвЂ™d take time off and go to Berklee.вЂќ вЂњWhen I was in high school,вЂќ Jung recalls, вЂњI saw the Berklee ads in Down Beat magazine and read that Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe, and Richie Cole had gone there. By the time Jung arrived in 1979, other Korean students had registered, but none had completed a semester. Tenor saxophonist Jung, Sung-jo appears to be the first Korean student to have enrolled at Berklee. It was impossible to meet with all of BerkleeвЂ™s top Korean alumni, but my late-October trip to Seoul offered a glimpse of how they have collectively influenced Korean music and musicians. Korean alumni returning home have had a major impact on the Korean music scene as singers, instrumentalists, songwriters, composers, recording engineers, producers, and music educators. Some 250 are currently enrolled, and over the past three decades, nearly 600 alumni have attended. Since 2010, South Korean musicians have represented the largest group of international students at Berklee. PsyвЂ™s mercurial rise only heightened my sense of intrigue as the date approached for a long-planned trip to Seoul along with Berklee President Roger Brown to meet some of the many Berklee alumni fueling the music scene in the East Asian nation.* He has also brought more attention to other Korean pop (K-pop) artists. In many cases, fame is regional, but Psy (who attended Berklee from 1999вЂ“2000) brought exposure to a new level when his song swept the globe so rapidly. K-pop star PsyвЂ™s вЂњGangnam StyleвЂќ video has made history by logging more than a billion YouTube views, skyrocketing the South Korean singer and his horsey dance to worldwide fame. How South Korean alumni became leaders in SeoulвЂ™s music industry.