K-Music Festival 2025: Park Jiha
K-Music Festival 2025: Park Jiha
Wed 22 October 2025
Stage time / 7:30pm
Doors / 7:00pm
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.
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.
The K-Music Festival is organised by the Korean Cultural Centre UK in partnership with Serious. Discover the full programme here
‘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’
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