Hwang Byungki, (황병기, 31 May 1936, Seoul — 31 January 2018) was the foremost South Korean player of the gayageum, a 12-string zither with silk strings. Hwang is also a composer and an authority on Korean sanjo, a form of traditional Korean instrumental music. Hwang Byungki or Byungki Hwang (the family name is Hwang) was born in Seoul in 1936, he studied gayageum and composition at the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts from 1951 Read more on Last.fm