HAKURAN白蘭

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HAKURAN

Composer.
Conductor.

HAKURAN (白蘭) is a composer and conductor whose music seeks to connect souls through sound. Grounded in Western music, his work takes the sounds of Korean tradition — jeongga and Gyeonggi sori singing, piri, jang-gu, gayageum — as its material, shaping them in many different ways to stir the soul.

At the heart of his catalogue is Sound of Time (時の音), an ongoing series in which Time itself becomes the narrator: the music speaks as Time, telling particular stories held in its memory. Sound of Time III (2017), for Gyeonggi sori singer, mezzo-soprano and string orchestra, and Sound of Time IV (2022), for jeongga singer, mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra, each pair a traditional Korean voice with a Western mezzo-soprano.

His works range from solo pieces such as Four Moons (思月) for guitar and Depth for cello to chamber and orchestral music, including the commissioned works In the Name of DAEHAN and DALIM (2025). His music has been premiered in Korea, Switzerland and Germany.

HAKURAN studied composition at the Korea National University of Arts (B.M. 2012, M.M. 2018) and completed coursework in its master’s program in orchestral conducting in 2025. In Korea, he has also been active under his given name, Yoon Jang, and many of his performances and recordings are credited to that name.