Gyeonggi Sinawi Orchestra

Founded in August 1996, Gyeonggi Sinawi Orchestra (formerly Gyeonggi Provincial Orchestra) is an artistic group representing Gyeonggi-do and Korea.
It has consistently presented high-quality stages that creatively inherited and developed Korean traditional music.
The Gyeonggi Sinawi Orchestra has a Korean traditional orchestra, a vocal ensemble representing Gyeonggi folk songs, and a performance troupe that evokes the spirit of God. The orchestra produces a variety of contemporary creative music, traditional music, and popular music, as well as various planned performances such as Korean traditional music, dance music, and meditation concerts. In the 21st century, the orchestra devoted themselves to the goal of leaping beyond Gyeonggi-do and Korea to the rest of the world. The name “Gyeonggi Sinawi Orchestra” reflects a mission to create a new kind of Korean orchestra in the spirit of “sinawi,” a style of improvisation that has its roots in traditional Korean music.
Sinawi, sometimes spelled shinawi, is a traditional Korean music. It is performed improvisationally by a musical ensemble, and traditionally accompanies the rites of Korean shamanism. The style first emerged in the Chungcheong and Jeolla provinces, but is now widespread. The traditional sinawi ensemble followed the principle of sam-hyeon-yuk-gak (三絃六角), with two flutes, a haegeum, a daegeum, a janggu hourglass-drum, and a large buk drum. However, today other traditional Korean instruments such as the gayageum and geomungo are also often included.