Dr. Kimho Ip
Composer, creative producer, conductor
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Kimho Ip works in the UK as composer, director, producer and Yangchin performer. He studied in Germany and Scotland and received his PhD in 2004 at the University of Edinburgh with the support of the Composers & Authors Society of Hong Kong, Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.
His orchestral and chamber music works have been performed at the Gaudeamus International Music Week, Amsterdam (2006) and ISCM World New Music Days (2002/ 2007), by ensembles such as the Paragon ensemble, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.
Commissioned by Cinema China 2007, he composed a soundtrack plus live music performance for the historical Chinese silent film, “The Goddess”. In April 2008 he will compose and perform “Song of the Fishermen” in the Five Circles series at ROH2, London.
Multi-artform and inter-cultural are best descriptions to summarise Kimho’s wide range of creative works. From 2005-07, he was artist-in-residence under Partner’s scheme of the Scottish Arts Council, created the conceptual platform, “Cathay House Blend” to transform 6 venues in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth into multi-artform live performing space using the concept of Chinese teahouse. In 2008, he is music advisor for China Now, and will be the creative director of iMAP for the event “Dialogues of Wind and Bamboo”, a site-specific composition for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh during China Now at Scotland. He is also the sound designer for the music, light and lanterns composition “Spirit” by the environmental arts company, NVA. Kimho composed for the Stellar Quines Theatre in their production of “Three Thousand Troubled Threads” at the Edinburgh International Festival (2005). Funded by Scottish Arts Council, he visited Bangladesh in 2006 and worked with Theatre Pratchayanat for Poush at the British Council, Dhaka.
In 2004 he worked as Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London, in a research on cross-cultural music and dance performance. With Anne-Marie Culhane, he performs a series of improvisation sessions inspired by Japanese Butoh and Chinese Tai-Chi. His CD album, “Runaway Horses”, the world’s first recording for soprano saxophone and yangchin, will be launched in Amsterdam and London in 2008.
Kimho Ip lives and works in London and Edinburgh.
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His orchestral and chamber music works have been performed at the Gaudeamus International Music Week, Amsterdam (2006) and ISCM World New Music Days (2002/ 2007), by ensembles such as the Paragon ensemble, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.
Commissioned by Cinema China 2007, he composed a soundtrack plus live music performance for the historical Chinese silent film, “The Goddess”. In April 2008 he will compose and perform “Song of the Fishermen” in the Five Circles series at ROH2, London.
Multi-artform and inter-cultural are best descriptions to summarise Kimho’s wide range of creative works. From 2005-07, he was artist-in-residence under Partner’s scheme of the Scottish Arts Council, created the conceptual platform, “Cathay House Blend” to transform 6 venues in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth into multi-artform live performing space using the concept of Chinese teahouse. In 2008, he is music advisor for China Now, and will be the creative director of iMAP for the event “Dialogues of Wind and Bamboo”, a site-specific composition for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh during China Now at Scotland. He is also the sound designer for the music, light and lanterns composition “Spirit” by the environmental arts company, NVA. Kimho composed for the Stellar Quines Theatre in their production of “Three Thousand Troubled Threads” at the Edinburgh International Festival (2005). Funded by Scottish Arts Council, he visited Bangladesh in 2006 and worked with Theatre Pratchayanat for Poush at the British Council, Dhaka.
In 2004 he worked as Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London, in a research on cross-cultural music and dance performance. With Anne-Marie Culhane, he performs a series of improvisation sessions inspired by Japanese Butoh and Chinese Tai-Chi. His CD album, “Runaway Horses”, the world’s first recording for soprano saxophone and yangchin, will be launched in Amsterdam and London in 2008.
Kimho Ip lives and works in London and Edinburgh.
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