Born with 'Joshua Park' in 1996 at Auckland, New Zealand and currently living in Sydney, Australia. Park-Kim is a director, producer, pianist, composer, cellist, flautist, vocalist, film editor and educator. He began his Bachelor of Music studies at age 14 at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts and completed it at age 18 and completed his Master of Music both at the Australian Institute of Music. He was awarded the Kathleen and Alison Short Scholarship and Rahma Shohet Scholarship for Master of Music Studies (Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney. He is currently studying for Doctor of Philosophy at the Macquarie University.
As an educator, he is an Academic Casual Lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium and Lily Kim Music Academy for piano, cello, flute, voice and composition and he also have many students who achieved full scholarships and winning and getting nominated for many awards in competitions including Sydney Eisteddfod, Emerging Artist, Encore HSC concerts and much more.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has started directing for online events, web series and online contents. He is well known for his music education program for young audiences on YouTube titled “Park-Kim Lectures”. For online performance, he directs, produces, video and audio edits the Online Concert every term in a music video style for Lily Kim Music Academy Student Online Concert and he was also edited and featured as an accompanist for Simon Chang-Hwan Kim for Opera Queensland and even featured on many YouTube channels including Sydney Eisteddfod. Currently there are over 100 videos published on YouTube created, edited by Joshua Won Park-Kim. In his channel and other features, he performed many works for piano, cello, flute, voice and he premiered many of his compositions on YouTube.
“Park-Kim Lectures” was the beginning of Park-Kim’s era as an online performer, educator, director and comedian where it lectured topics such as “Why is classical music boring?“, “What is a Sonata form?”, “Technicality Vs. Musicality”, “Fingering for Pianists” and the most viewed episode with the most iconic visual which passed over 2000 views; “What is Binary, Ternary and Rondo Form”. In his lectures it features excerpts and full performances of classical music performed by Park-Kim including Mozart Concerto KV 488, Rachmaninov Concerto No. 2, No. 3, Paganini Rhapsody, Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 and also in the 14th episode (How to Listen to Classical Music?), it features the full performance of Liebestraume by Franz Liszt performed in a duet style of himself and his mother Lily Kim in a title of “Mother and Son plays Liebestraume by Liszt”, which became one of the most discussed video for different interpretation of the same piece of music. This YouTube series was inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s “Young People’s Concert“ with slap stick comedy, improvisational comedy, dark comedy, prop comedy, sketch comedy and parodies.
For live concert, he performed in many events including the Sydney Opera House, Verbrugghen Hall, Riverside Parramatta Hall, Latvian Theatre, Australian Hall, The Royal Easter Show, The Art Gallery and also he performed the Danzas Argentinas by Alberto Ginastera on the radio at 2MBS FM. He performed in a role for the Opera “Fairy Queen” by Henry Purcell for the Australian Institute of Music event.
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Details last updated: August 16, 2022
