Exhibition
Gala Porras-Kim
27 Jan 2022 – 27 Mar 2022
Gasworks
London, United Kingdom
Performance
Pharaonic Music: Lecture performance by Heidi Köpp-Junk
8 Mar 2022
Regular hours
- Tue, 08 Mar
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 155 Vauxhall Street
- The Oval
- London
- SE11 5RH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Vauxhall/Oval
Event map
Egyptologist, music archaeologist and singer Heidi Köpp-Junk will talk about her experience bringing ancient music back to life with the help of historically accurate replicas of pharaonic musical instruments.
About
Egyptologist, music archaeologist and singer Heidi Köpp-Junk was commissioned to reconstruct a 3,300-year-old hymn for Gala Porras-Kim’s exhibition, Out of an instance of expiration comes a perennial showing. In this lecture performance, Köpp-Junk will talk about her experience bringing ancient music back to life with the help of historically accurate replicas of pharaonic musical instruments.
The public programme accompanying Porras-Kim's exhibition is supported by the Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK).
PLEASE NOTE: There is no booking and seating is on a first come, first served basis.
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Biography
Dr. Heidi Köpp-Junk is a German Egyptologist, music archaeologist and classical trained singer. She has excavated in Germany and Egypt (Dahshur, Elephantine, Buto, Sakkara, Qantir, Abydos, Athribis Temple) for institutions such as the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo (DAI). She has published three books and over 100 articles about music in ancient Egypt and other topics. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Egyptian Archaeology at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, section Egyptian Temples, at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
As a trained singer she performs songs from ancient Egypt, composed by her from sources like papyrus Harris 500 and papyrus Chester Beatty, while playing a replica of a pharaonic lute and other ancient instruments including the sistrum, lyre and frame drum.
