Il Won

Won Il , stylized as IL WON, is a Korean modern musician mainly based on Korean traditional music. He won four times at the Grand Bell Awards which is often regarded as South Korea's Academy Awards.

Early life

WON IL was born in Seoul on October 19, 1967. In elementary school, he hit all things that sounded like a musical instrument: hollow gears, such as broken pots, crushed pots, planks, sticks, iron pipes, or bamboo, dig through holes. He mainly played snare drums and recorders, and in middle school he started playing the clarinet in the band. The clarinet he met while blowing the iron pipe was so fascinating that he swelled his mouth to swell.

Thanks to these musical activities, the emotion of deficiency and discomfort that had to be felt in the absence of the birth mother in the home environment as a child was transformed into musical energy. In connection with the band's senior who attended the Korean traditional music high school, Won entered the National Traditional Music High School to major in flute, and the teacher of the original Samulnori who taught Samulnori, Kim Yong-bae recognized the mischievous 'player' in the Korean traditional music high school.

In that way, Kim Yong-bae's presence and music greatly influenced his music identity. While serving as a class leader and a school president at the Gugak High School, he was fail the college admission to Seoul National University. He established a career as a major in Korean classical music and flute major (1986 student number), led by teacher Jeong Jae-guk, a master of contemporary flutes, and entered the path of a traditional music player in earnest as a minor in percussion including Samulnori.

In college, in an attempt to play accompaniment music in real-time during a traditional dance performance, 'Sorisawi' with his participation as Flute-Percussion was established to try to put into practice the contemporary agony with the music.

At that time, there were also contacts with famous celebrities of the time, who were classified as so-called 'Undongkwon' such as Park Chi-eum, Kim Min-ki, and Yoo In-taek. At the time, in 1988, when the Seoul Olympics were held, on the occasion of Korean Liberation Day, on August 15, the festival of 'Unification Song Hanmadang' was held. At the 'Art Theater Hanmadang', opened as a theater dedicated to Korean traditional play (CEO Yoo In-taek), the festival led by Park Chi-um was the first musical accompaniment to Korean traditional music. 'Sorisawi' performed all accompaniment music as Korean traditional music.

Main career

Recipient of Daechwita / Piri Jeongak, National Intangible Cultural Properties 1993–2004 Representative leader, world music group “Puri” 2000–2002 Music Director, National Dance Company of Korea 2002–2015 Professor of Dp. Composition in School of Korean Traditional Arts (in Korea National University of Arts) 2004–2011 Representative leader, Korean Music Ensemble “Wind Cape” 2006–2015–2018 Music General Director, HwaEom Spiritual Music Ritual 2009–2010 Music Director, 21st Century Korean Music Project 2010 Advisor of Dp. Performance, Seoul Arts Center Council 2012–2015 National Orchestra of Korea, Artistic Director 2017–2018 Artistic Director, Yeowoorak Festival in National Theater of Korea 2018 Music Director, Opening & Closing Ceremony of 2018 Winter Olympics 2019 General Director, Opening & Closing Ceremony of the 100th Korean National Sports Festival 2020–present Artistic Director, Gyeonggi Province Sinawi Orchestra

Awards Year Award Category Recipient Result 1990 National Gugak Contest Grand Prize Won-il 1994 Korea Dance Association Awards Music Jok-bo 1995 Korea Institute of Creative Arts Awards New Generation Best Composer Selection Kkot-sang-yeo 1996 Grand Bell Awards Best Music Petals 1999 Best Music Spring in My Hometown Chunsa Film Art Awards Best Music Korean Association of Film Critics Awards Best Music Today's Young Artist Awards Traditional Korean Arts Won-il 2000 Grand Bell Awards Best Music The Uprising KBS Korean Traditional Music Awards Composition Won-il 2008 Grand Bell Awards Best Music Hwang Jin Yi 2015 Best Artist of This Year Music Won-il

Works

Discography

Soundtrack

Major events Music director, closing ceremony of 2018 Winter Olympics General director, opening and closing ceremony of the 100th Korean National Sports Festival

Filmography Radio Won Il's Evam mayā śrutam (Gugak FM, 2016-)

Television Fascinating Silkroad (KBS1, 2019) JTBC lecture 142nd episode (JTBC, 2020)