Won Il
# Won Il

Won Il(Korean: 원일; RR: Won Il), stylized as IL WON, is a Korean modern musician mainly based on Korean traditional music. He won four times at the Grand Bell Awards which is often regarded as South Korea's Academy Awards.

## Early life

WON IL was born in Seoul on October 19, 1967. In elementary school, he hit all things that sounded like a musical instrument: hollow gears, such as broken pots, crushed pots, planks, sticks, iron pipes, or bamboo, dig through holes. He mainly played snare drums and recorders, and in middle school he started playing the clarinet in the band. The clarinet he met while blowing the iron pipe was so fascinating that he swelled his mouth to swell.

Thanks to these musical activities, the emotion of deficiency and discomfort that had to be felt in the absence of the birth mother in the home environment as a child was transformed into musical energy. In connection with the band's senior who attended the Korean traditional music high school, Won entered the National Traditional Music High School to major in flute, and the teacher of the original Samulnori who taught Samulnori, Kim Yong-bae recognized the mischievous 'player' in the Korean traditional music high school.

In that way, Kim Yong-bae's presence and music greatly influenced his music identity. While serving as a class leader and a school president at the Gugak High School, he was fail the college admission to Seoul National University. He established a career as a major in Korean classical music and flute major (1986 student number), led by teacher Jeong Jae-guk, a master of contemporary flutes, and entered the path of a traditional music player in earnest as a minor in percussion including Samulnori.

In college, in an attempt to play accompaniment music in real-time during a traditional dance performance, 'Sorisawi' with his participation as Flute-Percussion was established to try to put into practice the contemporary agony with the music.

At that time, there were also contacts with famous celebrities of the time, who were classified as so-called 'Undongkwon' such as Park Chi-eum, Kim Min-ki, and Yoo In-taek. At the time, in 1988, when the Seoul Olympics were held, on the occasion of Korean Liberation Day, on August 15, the festival of 'Unification Song Hanmadang' was held. At the 'Art Theater Hanmadang', opened as a theater dedicated to Korean traditional play (CEO Yoo In-taek), the festival led by Park Chi-um was the first musical accompaniment to Korean traditional music. 'Sorisawi' performed all accompaniment music as Korean traditional music.

## Main career

* Recipient of Daechwita / Piri Jeongak, National Intangible Cultural Properties
* 1993–2004 Representative leader, world music group “Puri”
* 2000–2002 Music Director, National Dance Company of Korea
* 2002–2015 Professor of Dp. Composition in School of Korean Traditional Arts (in Korea National University of Arts)
* 2004–2011 Representative leader, Korean Music Ensemble “Wind Cape”
* 2006–2015–2018 Music General Director, HwaEom Spiritual Music Ritual
* 2009–2010 Music Director, 21st Century Korean Music Project
* 2010 Advisor of Dp. Performance, Seoul Arts Center Council
* 2012–2015 National Orchestra of Korea, Artistic Director
* 2017–2018 Artistic Director, Yeowoorak Festival in National Theater of Korea
* 2018 Music Director, Opening & Closing Ceremony of 2018 Winter Olympics
* 2019 General Director, Opening & Closing Ceremony of the 100th Korean National Sports Festival
* 2020–present Artistic Director, Gyeonggi Province Sinawi Orchestra

## Awards

| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1990 | National Gugak Contest | Grand Prize | Won-il | Won |
| 1994 | Korea Dance Association Awards | Music | Jok-bo | Won |
| 1995 | Korea Institute of Creative Arts Awards | New Generation Best Composer Selection | Kkot-sang-yeo | Won |
| 1996 | Grand Bell Awards | Best Music | Petals | Won |
| 1999 | Grand Bell Awards | Best Music | Spring in My Hometown | Won |
| 1999 | Chunsa Film Art Awards | Best Music | Spring in My Hometown | Won |
| 1999 | Korean Association of Film Critics Awards | Best Music | Spring in My Hometown | Won |
| 1999 | Today's Young Artist Awards | Traditional Korean Arts | Won-il | Won |
| 2000 | Grand Bell Awards | Best Music | The Uprising | Won |
| 2000 | KBS Korean Traditional Music Awards | Composition | Won-il | Won |
| 2008 | Grand Bell Awards | Best Music | Hwang Jin Yi | Won |
| 2015 | Best Artist of This Year | Music | Won-il | Won |

## Works

### Discography

Discography by Won Il :

| Year | Artist | Title | Label |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1996 | Won Il | A petal | Samsung Music |
| 1997 | Uhuhboo Project | Breakeven point | DongA Records |
| 1997 | Won Il | Asura | AK |
| 1997 | Dosirak Commandos | Yummy omnibus Dosirak Commandos | DongA Records/King Records |
| 1998 | Won Il | Spring In My Hometown | Woongjin Media |
| 1999 | Puri | 移動 | Yejeon Media |
| 1999 | Won Il | The Uprising | Sony Music |
| 1999 | Won Il | The Ring virus | Sony Music |
| 2000 | Dosirak Commandos | 圖時樂特功隊2 Behind Story | Doremi Records |
| 2003 | Won Il | Wonderful Days | Fluxus Music/Seoul Records |
| 2003 | Won Il | Wonderful Days [Special Edition] | Fluxus Music |
| 2007 | Puri | Neo Sound Of Korea | Mnet Media |
| 2011 | Baramgot | Baramgot | Universal Music |

### Soundtrack

| Year | Work | Awards |
| - | - | - |
| 1995 | Cinema on the Road (Korean: 한국영화 씻김; RR: Hangungnyeonghwa Ssitgim) | |
| 1996 | A Petal | Grand Bell Awards, BEST MUSIC |
| 1998 | The Power of Kangwon Province | |
| 1998 | Spring in My Hometown | Grand Bell Awards, BEST MUSIC |
| 1999 | The Ring Virus | |
| 1999 | The Uprising | Grand Bell Awards, BEST MUSIC |
| 2002 | On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate | |
| 2003 | Sky Blue | |
| 2003 | A Hilarious Mourning (Korean: 오구; RR: Ogu) | |
| 2003 | Into the Mirror | |
| 2005 | O-Nu-Ri (Korean: 오늘이; RR: Oneuri) | |
| 2006 | Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin (TV series) | |
| 2007 | Hwang Jin Yi | Grand Bell Awards, BEST MUSIC |
| 2011 | The Showdown | |
| 2012 | Gabi | |

### Major events

* Music director, closing ceremony of 2018 Winter Olympics
* General director, opening and closing ceremony of the 100th Korean National Sports Festival

## Filmography

### Radio

* Won Il's Evam mayā śrutam (Korean: 원일의 여시아문; RR: Wonirui Yeosiamun) (Gugak FM, 2016-)

### Television

* Fascinating Silkroad (Korean: 매혹의 실크로드; RR: Maehogui Silkeurodeu) (KBS1, 2019)
* JTBC lecture (Korean: 차이나는 클라스; RR: Chainaneun Keullaseu) 142nd episode (JTBC, 2020)
