The USF School of Music is pleased to present the Western Hemisphere premiere of one of the most 

exciting new groups in Korea, the Ensemble Collabo. Growing out of a desire to experiment with new 

ways of integrating the sonorities of Korean with Western instruments, this unique quintet combines 

two Korean traditional instruments, the haegeum (a bowed instrument with two strings) and the 

komungo (a six-string zither plucked with a wooded stick), with the sound of the Western viola, cello, 

and piano. The five professional artists comprising the Ensemble Collabo will be performing the music 

of Korean woman composer Lee Gui- Sook, who is one of the most prominent composers of music for 

Korean traditional instruments in South Korea.