Editing Gideon Gee-Bum Kim (section)

==Career==

Currently Dr. Kim is a professor at the Reformed Presbyterian Seminary of the East in Toronto and an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre. In 2000, Kim was a Distinguished Composer-In-Residence at the Colorado College which honored him with all-Kim concert of performances of various chambers and solo.

In 2011, Kim founded the Toronto Messiaen Ensemble, a Canadian chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of classical and contemporary music. The goal of the ensemble is to express a positive and hopeful message through music and Kim is serving as artistic director of the ensemble.

Kim's music has published by Ye-Dang Publishing Co., and can be heard on Sony Classical, Synnara Music and Sung Eum Limited labels.

Described by George Crumb as a composer who shows great originality in use of rhythm and harmony, and possesses a fine melodic gift, Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's music shows a connection of the rich musical heritage of Korea and new compositional techniques, especially in the field of heterophonic texture and all of this with live and emotional imagination.

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