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Irreplaceable Multi-Instrumentalist

Byung Ho Kwon (1979~) is a harmonica player and a musician specialized in unconventional instrument and a representative of contemporary Korean music. He majored in jazz piano at Dong-ah Broadcasting Art School, and in high school, he was privately taught Oboe by Pil Guan Seong(former Chief of Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra) and current Director of Art for Life. Now he is a professional player of Irish music, jazz flute, and accordion, He often appears on various music shows on television, which broadcast special music on distinguished stages. His frequent appearance on the stage demonstrates his excellent abilities as a musician and a performer.(More than 300 TV music programs, more than 3000 shots)

In 2008, he touched off a harmonica boom through a song by SG WANNABE Lalala , which achieved a million sales record. He is promoting harmonica among the general public through a lot of media exposure such as TV commercials and scripted shows. A recorded piece of his harmonica performance was used for a skit named Kamsuseong of Gag Concert,’ a very popular comedy showon Korean television. With its popularity, his rendering has been widely used as background music in various fields and nationally distributed as a ringtone, gaining more and more recognition every day.

As a music player who can use both chromatic and diatonic harmonica, he has become a role model of next generation and a music instructor who is promoting not-yet-popular harmonica by making great harmonica sounds and practicing them in various genres. More importantly, he also has been a music columnist since 2007 contributing to a magazine entitled 'Flute&' the only flute magazine in Korea, trying to break down the borderline between classical music and pop music by sharing his perspectives.

Currently, he actively works in diverse fields of music including Irish music and world traditional music using various instruments, he is also a Korean artist in NEUMANN, Hohner, Boss, Roland and SHURE.