Han Terra FRSA FRAS FRHS (Korean: 한테라; born March 30, 1982) is a South Korean–born inventor, composer and musician.
[1] Han is the first and the youngest individual kayageum musician of Blanchette Rockefeller Fund[2] and who had a debut in the Carnegie Hall in New York City.
[3] She was admitted a voting member of the Grammy Awards of The Recording Academy as few East Asian traditional musicians.
She is known to be a polymath in the areas of music, instruments, arts, dance, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, history, literature, writing, journals, fashion, design, technology, science and aesthetics.
[6][7][8][9] She has mastered the Eastern traditional arts singing and dancing accompanied with the Western Classical Music, and has been performing globally since.
[10] The clan is well-known for a long tradition of the women members of royal consorts produced the largest numbers of 16 queens in Korean history.
Especially, Han was trained in other East Asian zither traditions, including the Japanese Koto, Shamisen, 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 Tokyo University of the Arts and Chinese Guzheng, North Korea and Yanbian province Kayageum under Xingsan Jin, China National Intangible Cultural Heritage No.1083 at the Yanbian University and studied their traditional other performing art forms such as Japanese traditional dance and singing.
The music collection includes Yeo Min Lak (People of the joy composed by King Sejonog),[26] Chuita, Ut-dodeuri,[27] Mit-dodeuri, Bo Heo Sa,[28] Young San Hue Sang,[29] Kagok,[30] etc.. TeRra Han trained Korean royalty's music, all pieces under Jeongja Kim at Seoul National University and National Gugak middle and high school in Korea.
[48] For this recital, Terra Han revisits the music at Kagayeum and has a France-Korean version of this traditional instrument, with the participation of Erwan Richard, French violist.
[16][59][60] It was internationally tour concert from at the Suginami Public Hall in Tokyo, Japan[61][62] and National Gugak Center in Seoul, South Korea.
[63] She played Kayageum Sanjo full version of Choi Ok Sam which is a National intangible heritage No.23 of South Korea,[62] 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.
[62] 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[61][62][64] and National Gugak Center in Seoul, South Korea.
[66] Han acquired NYPD media credential as a journalist by the City of New York Police Department, Deputy Commissioner, Public Information.
Since 2011, she has been visiting the acoustics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and North Bennet School in a scientific approach to relationship between arts and science.
[74][75] Her Japanese Koto album 'Sakura' 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.
The music collection includes Yeo Min Lak (People of the joy composed by King Sejonog),[76] Chuita, Ut-dodeuri,[77] Mit-dodeuri, Bo Heo Sa,[78] Young San Hue Sang,[79] Kagok,[80] etc..