Kim is a cellist, multi-instrumentalist and composer.
She is a writer of instrumental music, an improvising musician, a composer and performer of theatre and film scores, and a collaborator with some of the country’s more interesting and left-of-centre solo artists.
As a theatre performer and music-writer, much of her work has been with Carpet, a company specialising in devised, physical and site-specific work, which has made the most of her experience as a live performer and improvising musician. Recent work with Carpet includes The Blanch, a darkly-comic Bouffon satire, in which she played drums while wearing a fat suit, that was one of the surprise highlights of Absolut Fringe 2009; and Ferry Tales, a poetic movement piece set to balletic, strange, asymmetrical music which she co-wrote and performed live (on cello), which was staged at the main terminal of Dublin ferry port, in the midst of throngs of ticket-buyers and passengers leaving and arriving. Her recorded theatre-score work includes performing on the soundtracks of, among others, ‘Philadelphia, Here I Come!’ (Galway Youth Theatre, 2007), ‘The Nose’ (Performance Corporation, 2008) and ‘Pilgrims Of The Night’ (Rough Magic Seeds, 2007).
Her film work includes arranging and performing strings on the soundtrack of the short ‘The Man In 301’ (2008), composing, playing and recording the score of the short ‘The Power To Change’ (2009), and improvising original music in a live performance along to the film ‘Verso-Tempo’ (2009). Contemporary artists she works with, live and on record, in Ireland and abroad, have included Ann Scott, Katell Keineg, Miriam Ingram and The Tycho Brahe.
Kim is a featured artist on the best-of-2009 compilation of the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival. She is originally from New York and studies cello at the Royal Irish Academy of Music under William Butt and composition with Kevin O’Connell.
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