Stages by Young Artists Filled with Passion and Energy

“Ode of Youth: Young Pansori,” an annual event that discovers talented young pansori performers and broadens the stage experience of the next generation of performers! This year, five young pansori performers who passed the highly competitive process will take the stage at the 2025 Sori Festival. Let us enjoy the lively performances of these talented, unique young performers!

Jeong Gwangsu-je Sugung-ga by Kim Gijin

“Jeong Gwangsu-je Sugung-ga,” performed by Kim Gijin, a successor of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Pansori, has been passed down from Song Heungrok, the founder of the Dongpyeon-je style, to Song Wooryong, Yoo Seongjun, Jeong Gwangsu, and An Sukseon. It combines the characteristics of the Dongpyeon-je style, which features ujo mode-based powerful vocalization, with the characteristics of the Seopyeon-je one, which is distinguished by its refined, elaborate, and diverse techniques of vocal based on the gyemyeon mode. This style expresses the story text in a formal and elegant way, and shows diverse rhythmic patterns and vocal tones as well as subtle word arrangement and musical articulation. Song Daeeui, a successor of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Pansori Gobeop, will perform the buk accompaniment.