Han Terra (; born March 30, 1982) is a South Korean–born inventor, composer and musician. She was a

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and was performing by age 6 as a Korean

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player beginning her training at the age of 4. She has invented a 24-stringed musical instrument called TeRra incorporating

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. Han is the first and the youngest individual

musician of Blanchette Rockefeller Fund and who had a debut in the

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in New York City. She was admitted a voting member of the

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s of

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as few East Asian traditional musicians. Han has been appointed as a fellow of the

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. She is known to be a

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in the areas of music, instruments, arts, dance, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, history, literature, writing, journals, fashion, design, technology, science and

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. She has mastered the Eastern traditional arts singing and dancing accompanied with the

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, and has been performing globally since.

Name and genealogy

Han was born in

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, South Korea. Her birth name was Laesuk ("Advent of Goodness" or "

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"). She got the

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' Myeong-wol' (), which means 'bright moon', from a Buddhist priest in her teens. Han also uses the pseudonym Dan-young (). She adopted the name 'TeRra' based on the name of the

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in the 2000s. Han is a member of the

Cheongju Han clan The Cheongju Han clan () is a Korean clan well known for their many female members including six queens. The Cheongju Han clan was one of the most prominent clans during the Goryeo period and Joseon period, currently, the Cheongju Han is kno ...

family. The clan is well-known for a long tradition of the women members of

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produced the largest numbers of 16 queens in Korean history. Her maternal grandmother's family was in the fashion and textile business and moved from Japan to Korea in the late 1920s.

Early life

Her initial ambition was to become a pianist taken piano lesson at age of 4, and she won the National Students Musical Competition at age of 6. She began to study

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at age 6 and won the National Music Competition of Korea at age 8. She trained in the Korean heritable dance traditions such as National intangible heritage No. 46. Salpuri,

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Chunaeng-jeon and Buchae-chum, Ipchum under Eunhee Song.Conversation after the performance at the Korea Society, Jan.2013 Han considered a career in journalism or as a

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. She was also cast for the main role of an

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which was featured in a film festival of

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in 2002. South Korean journalist Byung-Wook Jang interviewed Han and published the interviews in the book ''Gifted, TeRra'' in 2015.

Education

Han trained East Asian traditional performing arts at the prestigious institutes. She studied Korean traditional performing arts forms at National Gugak Middle and High School which is one of Korean government subsidiaries of National Gugak Center. She obtained a PhD degree as well as B.A and M.A degrees in music from

under Kim Il Ryun, Chae-suk Lee, and Jeongja Kim. She researched traditional East Asian performing arts at

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, and

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. Especially, Han was trained in other East Asian

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traditions, including the Japanese Koto,

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, the Chinese Guzheng, and the Indian Sitar. Through her research stints in Japan and China, Han acquired a deeper understanding of the Pan-Asian musical heritage. She took lessons in Japanese Koto of Ikuta school under the professor Ando Masateru at

and Chinese

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, North Korea and

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province Kayageum under Xingsan Jin, China National Intangible Cultural Heritage No.1083 at the

and studied their traditional other performing art forms such as

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and singing. In addition, she studied Indian

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with Daisy Paradis in New York. Han speaks

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, Japanese, Chinese, English, French, and Italian.

Music career

Active as a concerto soloist since age 12, Han collaborated with music orchestras such as Seoul Metropolitan Korean Music Orchestra, National Orchestra of Korea,

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Korean Music Orchestra,

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Korean Music Orchestra with conductors such as Jaewon Lim, Pyeonryong Lim, and Sangil Han. Han has been performing solo recitals in venues such as

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, National Korean Music Center, Suginami Public Hall and

in New York City. Han was a charter kayageum player of the National Traditional Music Youth Orchestra of

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in 2003, and became the youngest Kayageum player of the

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Municipal Korean Classical Music Orchestra. Presently, she is a member of the Asian Zither's Association. She is a member of Asian Musicology.

Korean royal music traditions

Han recorded Korean all royalty's music repertoires of kayageum solo version as the first kayageum soloist following her Cheongju Han family tradition. The recording collection is composed of 5 series of full version, published by separately Korean Broad Casting FM, Poly Music and distributed by Recording Industry Association of Korea. The music collection includes Yeo Min Lak (People of the joy composed by King Sejonog), Chuita, Ut-dodeuri, Mit-dodeuri, Bo Heo Sa, Young San Hue Sang, Kagok, etc.. TeRra Han trained Korean royalty's music, all pieces under Jeongja Kim at

and National Gugak middle and high school in Korea.

Compositions

Han's first composition happened at age of 8, it was published in her elementary school's annual journal. She was already arranging piano pieces to kayageum when she was early child ages such as by

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. She also wrote the choreography for Buru, a composition by Sukhi Kang. Han started release of her own compositions since 2016, the composition is 'Viola Code No. 1', it was inspired by the

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& Korean Sanghwa Lee, it was world premiered by French violist Erwan Richard on her recital celebrating 130th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. The second composition is 'Piano Code No. 1' inspired by arts work 'Wind of the Ancient Times' (2010, terra cotta) by Insu Choi, the piece was worked premiered by herself with kayageum arranged gallery art link 2016. She learned composing by herself, however influenced by Sukhi Kang,

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, she mentioned composing was devotion, not intended.

International career

Han debuted internationally with a series of recitals in the United States. She played at the Sam Sung Hall of the

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as part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival, at the Doris Duke Hall at the

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, in

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and had an invited recital at

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in 2008. In 2010, Han lived for some time in Tokyo, Japan during which she tried to adapt

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for Kayageum and collaborated with Japanese artists Korean Cultural Council in Japan sponsored. Her fan club, the TeRras, was established in Tokyo during the concert. She stayed in

in Northeastern China in 2011, and carried out research performing art forms of North Korea,

province and China with the Xingsan Jin who is a Chinese National Heritage of Kayageum of China. Their collaboration included exchange of musical concepts and playing techniques of 21, 22 and 23 stringed kayageums. Han studied

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in the

, Beijing under professor Zhou Wang. TeRra Han stayed in Paris 2012, since then she has been collaborating with

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such as visual artist Benjamin Efrati, electronic musician

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. In 2016, celebrating 130 years of diplomatic relations of France and Korea, she had a recital,

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series

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at the

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in Seoul supported by the

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. For this recital, Terra Han revisits the music at Kagayeum and has a France-Korean version of this

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, with the participation of Erwan Richard, French violist. Through the solos and duets of the artist and one can see the

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, the

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of the 11th century, but also the French and modern classical music. During her stay in New York City in 2012, she performed the "Sonnet of an Innocent Flower" at the Korea Society. During the performance,

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Robert. C Provine accompanied her performance with segments of lectures on each piece. The event encompassed kayageum music, song and dance which replicated the Chosun

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tradition. On September 29, 2015, Han had debut stage at the

, in New York. It was internationally tour concert from at the Suginami Public Hall in Tokyo, Japan and National Gugak Center in Seoul, South Korea. She played Kayageum Sanjo full version of Choi Ok Sam which is a National intangible heritage No.23 of South Korea, it was world premier that Choi Ok Sam sanjo full version performed and she was the youngest Korean traditional musicians of a few who ever had a recital at the Carnegie hall, even at the Suginami Public Hall, either. In 2015, her Japanese Koto album 'Sakura' was officially appointed as the special edition celebrating 50 years of the diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan by the Japan-Korea foreign ministries. As well as, It was actually internationally tour concert starting from at the Suginami Public Hall in Tokyo, Japan and National Gugak Center in Seoul, South Korea. She played Sanjo which is National intangible heritage No.23 of South Korea.

Others

TeRra Magazine

Han launched the art and cultural magazine, TeRra in New York City 2017 November. It was founded in 2016 in Seoul, and online service launched first in Tokyo 2017 February. TeRra Magazine is an English magazine dealing with Asian art and culture geographically covering from based on South Asian to Northeast Asia to all over the world. As being a writer of Journal of Seoul National University, Business Journal of South Korea, as well as a member of Asian American Journalist Association in USA, she is currently editor in chief of the magazine. Han acquired

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media credential as a journalist by the City of New York Police Department, Deputy Commissioner, Public Information.

Scientific research and MIT acoustics

She tried a scientific approach to the acoustics of Asian

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. Since 2011, she has been visiting the

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department of the

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and North Bennet School in a scientific approach to relationship between arts and science. She presented 'Introduction to the Asian Zither through the 12 stringed Korean kayageum' at the room 3–207 MIT 2012.

Fashion design

Han has been designing her dress for a performance at the stage, she had her first fashion collection and exhibition in Tokyo, gallery Pam-a 2013. She designed the show with her own kayageum music, about 10 models had a show on the stage. The title was 'from chima-chogori to court dress of Choseon', as reported by ''Tokyo Times'' (''

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''). Film and television

Media appearances

Han has appeared in major media and broadcasting both of Korean domestic and overseas s. In 1999–2000, Han has appeared in Korean Broadcasting System for giving new message celebrating new millennium years 2000. In addition, she appeared in some entertainment programs of the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System), SBS (Seoul Broadcasting System) and traditional music programs. Also she had interviews music radio,

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. TeRra Han made headlines and full cover of major newspapers such as the Korea Daily, ''

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'', '' Le Monde diplomatique'', ''

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'' (Tokyo Times) and ''

'' published a book of her, ''TeRra'' written by Byungwook Jang, Korean columnist 2015. ''The Korea Times'' reported her as 'Best Korean kayageum musician have a Carnegie Hall debut as the youngest kayageum musician'.

Film

Television

Recordings

Han's albums include recordings of traditional kayageum solo music, concertos and variety of chamber music including court music, sanjo music and contemporary music. She has also recorded in non-Korean kayageum music styles, in Japanese and Chinese traditional music with Koto or

. Her Japanese Koto album '

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' was appointed officially as the special edition celebrating 50 years of the diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the both governments. Han recorded Korean all royalty's music repertoires of kayageum solo version as the first kayageum soloist following her Cheongju Han family tradition. The recording collection is composed of 5 series of full version, published by separately Korean Broad Casting FM, Poly Music and distributed by Recording Industry Association of Korea. The music collection includes Yeo Min Lak (People of the joy composed by King Sejonog), Chuita, Ut-dodeuri, Mit-dodeuri, Bo Heo Sa, Young San Hue Sang, Kagok, etc..

Albums

* ''The 1st Album of Seong Nam City Korean Traditional Performing Arts'' (2005) * ''Album of Korean Classical Music Composition Festival'' (2006) * DVD for a film score for the educational documentary "Silla Dynasty Stoneware and Koryo Dynasty Celadon" in the USA (2009) * '' TeRra (Live)'' (2015) * ''A Maestro Who Saved Girl Ginius'' (2015) * '' TeRra Han plays 'Young San Hue Sang' (2CD)'' (2015) * Korean Traditional Court Music of Kayageum 'Bo Heo Sa', 2015 Digital Recording Series of Gugak FM 99.1 * '' Dreams of King Sejong, Yeo Min Lak'' 1 (1st Mov.-3rd Mov.), Korean Court Music Series (2015) * '' Dreams of King Sejong, Yeo Min Lak'' 2 (2nd Mov.-7th Yeoeum), Korean Court Music Series (2015) * '' Terra Han, Live at the Suginami Public Hall, Tokyo'' (2015) * '' 'Young San Hue Sang1 'Korean court music full version series 3'' (2015) * '' 'Young San Hue Sang2 (Pyeong Jo Hue Sang)''' (2015) *''March of Thousand Years (2016)'' *TeRra's Music Diaries (2020)

Singles

* "TeRra Han Plays Chinese Guzheng: Fisherman's Song" (2015) * Japanese Koto'Sakura'variations: Korea-Japan Foreign Affairs Administrator's Official Album, Celebrating the 50 years Anniversary of Diplomatic Normalization between Korea and Japan (2015)

Bibliography

* 2015 TeRra: Memoir of TeRra Han, written by Byung-Wook Jang (published by ''

'') *2017 TeRra Magazine, Preliminary Issue (Japan) *2017

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of New York (Published by ''HBS Creatives''., New York) *2017 Ando Masateru, Japanese Koto Master (Published by ''HBS Creatives''., New York) *2018 Composer who Awakened Asia with New Music, Sukhi Kang (Published by ''HBS Creatives''., New York) *2018 Xingsan Jin, 3 Stars of China and Two Korea (Published by ''HBS Creative''s., New York) *2018 Zhou Wang, Chinese Guzheng Master (Published by ''HBS Creatives''., New York) *2018 6 Heroes of TeRra Asia, TeRra Gold Special Edition (Published by ''HBS Creatives.'', New York) *2018 The Way To Paradiso, French Fashion Designer Adeline André

Awards and recognition

* 1989. Winner of National Students Musical Competition Special Grand Prize, Piano * 1989. Winner of National Musical Competition, Korean Music Society, Special Grand Prize, Kayageum * 1992. Winner of National Student Student Musical Competition of Korea, Gold Prize * 1994. Winner of Official Commendation of

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, Korea * 1999. Winner of Dong-a Ilbo, Korean Musical Concours, Silver Prize * 2001. Winner of Han-bat National Kayageum Competition Grand Prize * 2004. Winner of Chung-ju National Kayageum Competition Gold Prize * 2009. Winner of

, Sejong Korean Music Concours * 2010. Grantee of Blanchette Rockefeller Fund,

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, USA * 2020–Fellow of

in United Kingdom (

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) * 2020–Fellow of Royal Asiatic of Great Britain and Ireland in United Kingdom (FRAS) * 2020–Fellow of

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in United Kingdom (

)

Others

* 2002–2003. National Traditional Music Youth Orchestra, Korea * 2005–2009. Seong-Nam City Korean Traditional Music Orchestra * 2005–present. Asian

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Association * 2010. Lecturer of Korean Music at Korean Embassy in Tokyo, Japan * 2011–present. Asian Musicology * 2010 Honorary Ambassador of Korean Center for International Affairs,

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* 2015 Member of Asian American Journalist Association, USA * 2016–present.

(Grammy Awards), USA * 2019–present.

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* 2020–present. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) * 2020–present. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) * 2020–present. National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), USA

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