Juwon Park, a Korean guitarist, composer, arranger and producer. At the age of 9, Juwon Park started to practice classical guitar with influence from his family. By growing up, Juwon Park was influenced by many different style of music such as Paco de Lucia, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, George Benson and Vicente Amigo etc. At 20, He entered Seoul Institute of the Arts to study music deeply and also met his musical colleagues to cooperate in the future.

In 2009, Juwon Park released his first solo album ‘Time of Gypsy’. With its title track ‘Time of Gypsy’ and other tunes, Juwon Park became known to the public as ‘gypsy guitarist’ and even acclaimed as ‘young maestro’ by critics and media for his amazing performance and techniques. There were certainly many guitar albums in Korea but no one ever tried to play anything like his music that requires special techniques as well as creativity.

While performing all over the country, Juwon Park and his band quickly became one of the most in-demand band for music festivals and concerts in Korea.

In 2011, the second album ‘Fiesta of Sorrow’ was released. His first and second albums were chosen as ‘Album of the Year’ in 2009 and 2011 respectively from NAVER (the biggest search portal in Korea) and selected as ‘Remarkable Rookie’ from Hankyoreh daily newspaper. In 2012, ‘The Best Jazz & Crossover’ from Korean Music Award was awarded to him. His sweeping-award ability didn’t stop. He was also selected as the ‘Best Guitarist’ and ‘Rookie of the Year’ from music magazine ‘all around music SOUND’ for 2 successive years.

In 2013, Juwon Park released his 3rd album ‘Captain’ and was invited to Singapore Music Matters, which is a world renowned music market, giving great impressions to the audiences and people concerned.

He also extended his field to being a composer, putting his name on K-Pop singer IU’s second album ‘Modern Times’ and participating in composing movie and drama OST; movie ‘Love Fiction’ and SBS drama ‘Incarnation of Money’.

In 2015, Juwon Park released a special album ‘Gypsy Cinema’, which is filled with classic movie soundtracks with his own special arrangement. As ‘Gypsy Cinema’ released, Juwon Park held a concert at LG Arts Center, one of the largest concert venue in South Korea.

In 2016, Juwon Park was invited to Frankfurt, Germany to perform at Brotfabrik. In 2017, Juwon Park did a collaboration with Brown Eyed Girls member ‘Jea’ for a cover version of Luis Fonsi’s ‘Despacito’. In August 2017, Juwon Park was invited to perform at PizzaExpress Live in Soho, London, whose former guest performers range from Norah Jones, Amy Winehouse and Gregory Porter to Brad Mehldau. Currently he is writing and recording his next studio album.

Line-up

Guitar/Voice: Juwon Park

Bass: Daeseung Ko

Trumpet: Seungchul Yoo

Percussion: Kwang-Hyun Park

Kwang-Hyun Park - Perucssion

1989年出生于韩国，2005年开始演奏鼓和打击乐，2008年在ROK Navy Band工作，毕业于donga 媒体艺术协会，J.Leiva 打击乐品牌转让人，2012年参加Jarasum国际爵士乐音乐节。2016~2017年参加首尔国际爵士乐节，2015年参加了Ulsan国际爵士乐节，2017年受邀去PizzaExpress LIVE soho演奏。

Daeseung Ko - Bass

1993年出生于韩国首尔，贝斯演奏家。擅长爵士、嘻哈、放克、流行等等，毕业于howon大学音乐专业。录音及参加的现场演出有：block B, mayson the soul, after school, zico yoonhan, nu’est,JUWON PARK与jea合作《despacito》, JUWON PARK 和jeon je duk伦敦与柏林的演出，jang hyo seok X masato honda在t-square的演出。参加的音乐节有：jarasum melody forest jea和juwon park的演出，daejeon国际吉他节，grand mint音乐节,daegu爵士音乐节。

Yoo Seungchul - Trumpet

1983年出生于首尔，2002年在Gimpo 大学学习吉他专业，2008年在首尔艺术家协会攻读小号专业。2015年至今在Dankook大学攻读硕士学位。Park Juwon的吉普赛吉他乐队成员，Jazz Park大乐队成员，拉丁爵士乐队La Isla Bonita成员。参加的演出有：2010年与爵士乐歌手共同参加Israel音乐会，2013年新加坡 Korea Music Matters，2014年哈萨克斯坦的韩国爵士夜，2017年德国柏林音乐会，2017年英国伦敦音乐会。

TOUR SCHEDULE

4月13日 周五 19:30 北京 璃墟剧场

4月14日 周六 15:00 北京 DDC 黄昏黎明俱乐部

4月15日 周日 19:00 北京 山谷空间

4月17日 周二 21:30 合肥 ON THE WAY乐馆

4月18日 周三 20:30 南京 欧拉艺术空间

4月20日 周五 20:30 苏州 山丘LIVEHOUSE