LA Philharmonic will host the Seoul Festival in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles (Director Haedon Lee) from June 3 to June 10. The week-long event will take place at Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.

This Seoul Festival expands the LA Phil's "Green Umbrella New Music Series" into a full-season event, marking the first time in the orchestra's history that a week-long program is dedicated to a single country. Unsuk Chin, recipient of the prestigious Siemens Prize and Artistic Director of the Tongyeong International Music Festival, has curated and directed the entire festival program.

=Highlights of the Festival=

June 3 (Tuesday) @ 8pm: New Voices from Korea will feature the world premiere of a work by composer Dongjin Bae (Professor, Seoul National University) and the West Coast premiere of a piece by Artistic Director Unsuk Chin. Other compositions by Juri SEO, Sun-Young PAHG, and Yie-Eun CHUN will also be performed. Participating musicians include the LA Phil New Music Group, Ensemble TIMF, conductor Soo-yeoul Choi, pianist Hie-Yon Choi, daegeum player Hong Yoo, violinist SooBeen Lee, and flutist YuBeen Kim.