| About Lana Kim - Sustainable Music | Greetings, and thanks for stopping by. Lana Kim is an ethnic Korean born in European country. Educated globally with degrees from three continents she now resides in South Korea. To her credit she has developed a proprietary method for making international jury winners from little children. After a decade of hundreds of concerts she decided to put more attention into the studio. Albums listed on this and other sites (35 to date) are to be expanded to 60 by late 2012. Her current projects are "Wedding", "The Funeral" and "Child's Play". "Nostalgia" and a set of pipe organ works entitled "All Christian Hyms" (581 pieces). In November 2011 she will release one Christmas work, the best is "Traditional Christmas" which is a 'great style' set of the best, traditional Christmas music, and the former hits, "Lana Kim's 2009 Christmas Special" in a lighter, popular, energetic style. If you like Manheim Steamroller or Carols with a beat. All music is available via online download or in select stores in most countries, and "Best of Christmas Past" Lana Kim is available for select concerts, public performances and custom recording through Sustainable Music. Lana Kim appreciates all of the support from you and other fans and will endeavour to give you her best for your listening pleasure. May you find the happiness you deserve through the pleasure of music. More Details: Lana, born at the height of the USSR's cold war efforts, studied music in the well funded cultural prime time. Lana excelled because of both hard work and motivation from the fact that music allowed the exemption from political duties and cooperative obligations, like village farming and pre-military group activities. At this time she was "graduated early from conventional studies" and was put in the "famous Glinka Conservatory (in Novosibirsk). What about this? As most people know Uncle Stalin was no friend of the Jewish community. He sent millions of Jews to re-education camps in Siberia. The more intellectual you were, the farther from Moscow you would be sent. So, Glinka Conservatory, being located in Siberia gleaned hundreds of the best Jewish composers, musicians and professors in the world in an environment that adversity and location made music not only their escape from Soviet oppression but distilled the productivity and level of music to a pinnacle. It is here where Lana Kim studied and became noticed, impressing the professors of note. By age sixteen she had performed such as Feux Follets by Liszt, Chopin Op. 10 No.s 4, 5, 8, ,9, 10, 11, 12, and etudes 4, 5, 25 and more, Rachmaninoff Etudes Op. 33, No. 6, Op. 39, No. 1 and Scrabin works by the dozens on TV, in concert halls and in the obligatory military camps and public venue. She attended state financed Master Classes by Ignotz Friedman, Marta Agrerich and many more 1st level international pianists. Oxana Jablonskya of Julliard also enhanced her techniques. She met her to be German, Itallian and Korean professors of her advanced degrees as well. She was on of a short list of pianists earmarked for Russian greatness. Then came a fate changing moment. The Soviets went bust! At the same time Lana discovered Western culture by visiting Europe. European visas during this time were not available. The only "out" available was to study liturgical music at a master level in South Korea. There she mastered pipe organ, playing Bach like E. Power Biggs. The Koreans liked her, gave her citizenship, and she started on a career of Classical, Opera, and teaching to the gifted students. But, after 10 years of overwork and the lower level of Western music appreciation in Korea, she tried to figure out what her next move should be. It was then by chance I met her at an international symposium on musical education. We talked over many subjects during the times that the venues of low interest were being presented. We found cases of similar circumstances in music and I asked her to come to my new little studio and play. She played impressively St. Saens, Sibelius, and Rachmaninoff. But, I produced popular music, not classical. Through a contact I arranged for her to play a national tv concert with another artist, doing the St. Saens Carnival piece. Boom! After that, I tried to get her some "play time" in the US. The constant reply, "What? Another classical pianist? No thanks." click! So I put her into the Chinese markets. I signed her to contract at that time. After only three months, putting her in the "crossover" classical - popular niche, she was enjoying her popularity. Then a three way satellite deal with Dish Networks, Star, and SinoSat combined China, India, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and added channels was created. On one of the earlier broadcasts was a concert played with a multinational music event where the viewership was 1.3 billion. Lana was lucky to be on that show even though it was a freebie. Her short term goal is to get a professorship at a major conservatory in the US. |
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