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Smile to Sleep.mov JooHandsSmall 1,185 views A moment from The Sleepover Concert at Eva Stegeman's Chamber Music Festival in The Hague, Holland. The audience were lulled to sleep by musicians and woken up the next mor...
A Magic Moment from Hyung-ki Joo's workshop at ISA "The Inner and Outer *****For a Musician".MP4 JooHandsSmall 2,337 views What you are seeing and hearing is totally improvised, unrehearsed, and the students have all been put on the spot and have no clue what's going on! All brave enough to get...
Don Puppet (based on Mozart's "Don Giovanni") JooHandsSmall 11,271 views The genius of Mozart sung by a Shark and an Emu. Conceived, written, and performed by Hyung-ki Joo and Andrew Melvin.
Nadia Boulanger JooHandsSmall 19,496 views One of the greatest musicians of the 20th Century- "teacher" of Copland, Quincy Jones, Piazzolla, Michel Legrand, Bernstein, Philip Glass, Ginette Neveu and so many more...
Uma Ysamat Solo JooHandsSmall 2,531 views One of the most intriguing and magical artists of today. Indescribable, utterly mesmerising and simply beautiful. ALSO Check out Uma Ysamat Tarababula.
Heart and Soul with Joo, Brubeck, Krall, Lee Lewis, Labeques, Joel, Chestnut, Thibaudet, Levin JooHandsSmall 22,321 views Featuring Hyung-ki Joo, Diana Krall, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dave Brubeck, Katia and Mariele Labeque, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Cyrus Chestnut, Robert Levin, and Billy Joel.
Breath Control Part 3- The Revenge of the Ballerina JooHandsSmall 5,809 views Death to all Pink Electric Bunnies Effective Immediately. The final and breathtaking (get it, "breath taking???) installment to the Epic "Breath Control Trilogy" (sometimes...
Hyung-ki Joo & Billy Joel JooHandsSmall 166,648 views "For rock 'n' roll, I am OK, but for this kind of music, I wanted a true virtuoso, someone who knows how to express all the nuances, who intuitively understands all the dyn...
Hyung-ki Joo plays with Janine Jansen from "Next Stop Manhattan" JooHandsSmall 10,900 views Hyung-ki Joo plays Piazzolla with Janine Jansen, Carel Kraayenhof & Friends. From a movie by Renate Lieberenz and Petra Kolsch to celebrate 20 years of "Spectrum Concerts B...
Carnival of the Animals with Sir Roger Moore, Joo, Jansen, Rachlin, Imai, Maisky. JooHandsSmall 27,654 views Live from Julian Rachlin & Friends, Dubrovnik 2006, featuring Hyung-ki Joo, Sir Roger Moore, Janine Jansen, Mischa Maisky, Nobuko Imai, Stacey Watton, Mihaela Ursuleasa, a...

About Hyung-ki Joo

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Date Joined

Jan 4, 2009

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Hyung-ki Joo was born. He is British, but looks Korean, or the other way around, or both. He showed his first signs of a sense of comedy whilst nappy-changing and shortly thereafter, showed his love for music when his parents would find him at the record store listening for hours to everything from Mozart to Bee Gees. (Although the two are never to be confused, Hyung-ki is often heard singing "Don Gio¬vanni" in the style of Barry Gibb).

He started piano lessons at the age of eight and a half and two years later won a place at the Yehudi Menuhin School. There, he discovered that he was among geniuses and child prodigies and was convinced he would be kicked out of school, year after year. In fact, he was not kicked "out" but kicked "around" by teachers and fellow students, such as Aleksey Igudesman. After these painful experiences, Joo invented a new type of piano playing known as "Karate Piano". No matter how difficult his years at the school may have been, it only strengthened his love of music, and he also realised that the world of classical music had little to do with the spirit in which the music was created and began dreaming of a way to bring this great music to a wider and newer audience-- a dream which has recently been realised through his show: "A Little Nightmare Music".

Hyung-ki, spelt R-I-C-H-A-R-D, and pro¬nounced "Dick", is the only Korean Jew, (spelt J-O-O) in the world. Hyung-ki has small hands, (but only hands small), and therefore finds some piano repertoire quite difficult to play, such as the music of Rachmaninov, who had Big Hands. Anyway, even with this small hindrance, he happily performs chamber music, recitals, concertos, his own compositions, and anything else that includes a piano part.

Besides performing, composing, laughing, brushing his teeth at breakneck speed, and writing comedy with his long time friend and duo partner, Aleksey Igudesman, Joo's passion for teaching has led him to develop a personal style of workshop, entitled "The Inner and Outer ***** for a Musician", which aims to encourage and inspire young musicians to experience music and life as a musician, from different perspectives.

"Stunning to hear in concert-- he is a virtuoso" PAUL SIMON

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111

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United Kingdom

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Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy, Haydn, Glenn Gould, Victor Borge, Dudley Moore, Monty Python, Paul Auster, Rodin, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Jacques Brel, Vermeer, Richard Feynman, Marlon Brando, Fellini, Pele, Zidane, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sergei Bubka, Garrincha, John McEnroe, Michael Frayn, John Lennon, Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonder, Charles Bukowski, e.e. cummings, W.B. Yeats, Charlie Chaplin, Jean-Baptiste Thieree and Victoria Chaplin, Spike Jones, James Thieree, Carlos Kleiber, Erroll Garner, Amalia Rodrigues, Ferenc Rados, Bill Evans, "Star Wars", Buddha, A.A. Milne, Saint-Exupery, DC and Marvel Comics, Banksy, Duchamp, John Cage, Charles Ives, Yehudi Menuhin, Quatuor Emcy, Leonard Bernstein, Larry David, Stephan Merchant, Bunuel, Cortot, Rachmaninoff, Raymond Quenau, P.D.Q. Bach, J.S. Bach, Florence Foster Jenkins, Cathy Berberian, The Beatles, Freddie Mercury, Pink Floyd, Bjork, Peter Schaffer, Milos Forman, Furtwangler, Paul Simon, Muhammad Ali, Yu Horiuchi, Peter Norris, Martin Luther King, Rowan Atkinson, Danny Kaye, Akira Kurosawa, Chan-Wook Park, the movie "Hellzapoppin", Nam June Paik, Aleksey Igudesman, Augusto Boal, Piero Manzoni, Salvador Dali, Andrew Melvin, Henri Leconte, Martha Graham, Malcolm Singer, Nelson Mandela, John White, Uri Dror, Joe Cocker, Louis Armstrong, Hans Keller, Stephen Hawking, Julian Rachlin, Gyorgy Ligeti, Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone, Nadia Boulanger, Alexander Joel, Night Ark, Wiener & Doucet, Sir Thomas Beecham, Thomas Carroll, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Peter Greenaway, The Kings' Singers, The Muppets, Jim Henson, Agata Kristof, Harold Pinter, David Blaine, Gore Vidal, Sacha Baron Cohen, Chris Marker, Gyorgy Kurtag, Bela Bartok, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather", Simon Parkin, Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, my mother's cooking, my father's integrity, Thomas Alva Edison, Oscar Wilde, Ricky Gervais, Peter Brook, Thelonius Monk, Nick Drake, Julie London, Billie Jean King, Abraham Lincoln, Rosita Renard, Alex Schnieper, Quentin Tarantino, Shakespeare, Miles Davis, Stravinsky, Ben Okri, Gidon Kremer, The Nicholas Brothers, Gershwin, Frida Kahlo, Ray Bradbury, Hundertwasser, Orson Welles, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Oliver Sacks, and dogs, especially big ones.

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