Park Jiha (part of K-Music Festival)

Acclaimed composer and multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha returns with her latest album All Living Things - a radiant sonic meditation on the textures, rhythms, and quiet power of the living world.

At the K-Music Festival, Park showcases her mastery of traditional Korean instruments: the piri (a double-reed bamboo oboe), saenghwang (a free-reed mouth organ), and yanggeum (a hammered dulcimer). These are intricately woven together with contemporary sonics and electronnics, with deeply personal compositions. The result is a soundscape that defies genre at once post-classical, ambient, and cinematic, yet entirely her own.

★★★★★ ‘Music like no other music.’ Musikexpress

★★★★ ‘From ambient warmth and playful melody to brittle, bone-rattling tension’ The Guardian

★★★★ ‘The result is serene, luminous, and utterly gorgeous’ Songlines

Since debuting with Communion in 2018, Park has released Philos (2019), The Gleam (2022), and All Living Things (2025) on Tak:til / Glitterbeat Records, exploring sound as a form of breathing. Her work includes a BBC-recorded collaboration with poet Roy Claire Potter and her film scoring debut for Garth Davis' Foe (2023), showcasing her cinematic sensibilities and evolving soundscapes. This concert is a part of K-Music Festival https://kccuk.org.uk/en/programmes/kmusicfestival2025/

Presented by Rich Mix.

This is an 18+ event