Kim began his life as a professional musician in Saskatoon in 1975. Since that time, he was able to balance a fulltime 25-year career in the Canadian Forces Music Branch with an active freelance schedule. For his first 16 years in the CF, he was primarily the keyboardist and arranger for the Air Command Band in Winnipeg, taking part in hundreds of official government, military and public functions throughout North America and Europe. For his last 9 years in Ottawa and Borden, Ontario, he was the CF Director of Music Studies. Duties in this capacity included teaching arranging, orchestration and theory courses to senior levels of CF musicians as well as overseeing the branch curriculum development and audition process.

Apart from his CF career, Kim has been able to freelance both as a performer and a writer while living in Saskatoon, Toronto, Winnipeg, Miami, Ottawa, and Barrie, Ontario. Professional activities along the way have included numerous public concerts, theatre, jazz festivals, cruise ships, clubs, and various media broadcasts.

Kim holds a Bachelor of Music (Music Education) degree from the University of Saskatchewan, an Honours Diploma in Arranging from Humber College in Toronto, and a Master of Music (Studio/Jazz Writing) degree from the University of Miami. He is very happy being back in Saskatoon with friends and family since retiring from the CF in 2012 and has had the pleasure of being involved with a wide variety of performers including the Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra, the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Persephone Theatre, Kids of Note, several of the city’s vocalists, and a healthy number of jazz, rock, pop, and country ensembles. He plans to continue until hauling gear dictates otherwise!