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He started piano lessons at the age of eight and a half and two years later won a place at the Yehudi Menuhin School. There, he discovered that he was among geniuses and child prodigies, and was convinced he would be kicked out of school, year after year. In fact, he was not kicked out but kicked around by teachers and fellow students, such as Aleksey Igudesman. After these painful experiences, Joo invented a new type of piano playing known as Karate Piano. No matter how difficult his years at the school may have been, it only strengthened his love of music, and he also realised that the world of classical music had little to do with the spirit in which the music was created and began dreaming of a way to bring this great music to a wider and newer audience-a dream which has recently been realised through his show: A Little Nightmare Music.
Hyung-ki, spelt R-I-C-H-A-R-D, and pronounced Dick, is the only Korean Jew, (spelt J-O-O) in the world. He has performed at the White House, in a red house, and sadly not with Bernhard Greenhouse. However, Reachhard Yankee Jew, has performed with luminaries as diverse as Larry Adler, Yehudi Menuhin, Yoko Ono, Gidon Kremer, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Gershwin (after Gershwins death), Arturo Toscanini (with a Music Minus One CD), and Nicolo Paganini (as part of a dream which then changed into a scene from an Indiana Jones Movie, as dreams do).
Hyzjxiiung%keys other achievements include: unofficial world record for Fastest Tooth-brusher, watching the movie Mission Impossible 8 times in a row within 23 hours, and possessing a repertoire of over 500 different types of laughter which he hopes to record one day for a famous recording company.
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Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy, Haydn, Glenn Gould, Victor Borge, Dudley Moore, Monty Python, Paul Auster, Rodin, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Jacques Brel, Vermeer, Richard Feynman, Marlon Brando, Fellini, Pele, Zidane, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sergei Bubka, Garrincha, John McEnroe, Michael Frayn, John Lennon, Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonder, Charles Bukowski, e.e. cummings, W.B. Yeats, Charlie Chaplin, Jean-Baptiste Thieree and Victoria Chaplin, Spike Jones, James Thieree, Carlos Kleiber, Erroll Garner, Amalia Rodrigues, Ferenc Rados, Bill Evans, "Star Wars", Buddha, A.A. Milne, Saint-Exupery, DC and Marvel Comics, Banksy, Duchamp, John Cage, Charles Ives, Yehudi Menuhin, Quatuor Emcy, Leonard Bernstein, Larry David, Stephan Merchant, Bunuel, Cortot, Rachmaninoff, Raymond Quenau, P.D.Q. Bach, J.S. Bach, Florence Foster Jenkins, Cathy Berberian, The Beatles, Freddie Mercury, Pink Floyd, Bjork, Peter Schaffer, Milos Forman, Furtwangler, Paul Simon, Muhammad Ali, Yu Horiuchi, Peter Norris, Martin Luther King, Rowan Atkinson, Danny Kaye, Akira Kurosawa, Chan-Wook Park, the movie "Hellzapoppin", Nam June Paik, Aleksey Igudesman, Augusto Boal, Piero Manzoni, Salvador Dali, Andrew Melvin, Henri Leconte, Martha Graham, Malcolm Singer, Nelson Mandela, John White, Uri Dror, Joe Cocker, Louis Armstrong, Hans Keller, Stephen Hawking, Julian Rachlin, Gyorgy Ligeti, Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone, Nadia Boulanger, Alexander Joel, Night Ark, Wiener & Doucet, Sir Thomas Beecham, Thomas Carroll, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Peter Greenaway, The Kings' Singers, The Muppets, Jim Henson, Agata Kristof, Harold Pinter, David Blaine, Gore Vidal, Sacha Baron Cohen, Chris Marker, Gyorgy Kurtag, Bela Bartok, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather", Simon Parkin, Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, my mother's cooking, my father's integrity, Thomas Alva Edison, Oscar Wilde, Ricky Gervais, Peter Brook, Thelonius Monk, Nick Drake, Julie London, Billie Jean King, Abraham Lincoln, Rosita Renard, Alex Schnieper, Quentin Tarantino, Shakespeare, Miles Davis, Stravinsky, Ben Okri, Gidon Kremer, The Nicholas Brothers, Gershwin, Frida Kahlo, Ray Bradbury, Hundertwasser, Orson Welles, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Oliver Sacks, and dogs, especially big ones.
Movies:
La Veillee des Abysses; Le Cirque Imaginaire.
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I love your performance !!!
I was at your show(Düsseldorf) in February, and I was so embarrased about the people in the front row. THEY ACTUALLY LEFT DURING THE SHOW. Well, you're an effin' great musician, keep it up.