Kim Dong-won (percussionist)

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 김동원
Revised
Romanization
Gim Dong-won
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Reischauer
Kim Tongwon

Kim Dong-won (* 1965 in Busan , South Korea ) is a South Korean percussionist and composer .

Kim studied traditional Korean percussion from 1986 and worked with masters like Kim Duk-su . He plays instruments such as Janggu , Buk , Guengari and Bara . As a member of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemble, he worked on their albums New Impossibilities and Off the Map . For the ensemble he composed the piece Baet Nore (Ferne Horizonte). As a composer, arranger and percussionist he was involved in the albums On the Road and Xpressed Impressions of the Austrian world music group Comin & Goin .

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