Park Jiha

Park Jiha is a Korean composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Seoul. Trained in Korean traditional music, she plays the piri (a double-reed pipe), the yanggeum (a hammered dulcimer) and the saenghwang (a mouth organ), and writes music that draws on minimalism and improvisation. She is known for her solo albums on the tak:til imprint of Glitterbeat. Park Jiha co-founded the duo Sum with Jungmin Seo in 2007; the pair released albums in 2010 and 2014 and were invited to WOMAD and SXSW.