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이루마, Yiruma, (born 15 Feb 1978, Seoul, Korea) is a South Korean piano music composer. His works have also been released in Japan.

Yiruma started to learn the piano at home in Korea at the age of 5. In 1988 he moved to England, and in Dec 1996 he participated in the album The Musicians of Purcell (Decca). He graduated from The Purcell Of Specialist Music School (London) in July 1997, then from Kings College in June 2000.

Yiruma is well known throughout the world, and his albums are sold all over the United States and Europe, as well as Asia. His most famous pieces include “Kiss the Rain”, “May Be” and “River flows in You” (From the Yellow Room).

Although he formerly held dual citizenship as a citizen of the United Kingdom and South Korea, in July 2006 he gave up his British citizenship and entered the Republic of Korea Navy to begin his military service, which is mandatory for all male South Koreans.





1 comments:

  1. Yiruma,
    Thank you one hundred times for your wonderful music provided for our listening pleasure and especially for GIVING us the sheet music to try and emulate your music and style. I have 3 piano students. One of them brought 'River Flows in You' to a lesson. It was wonderful and I went online to learn more. This student's sister took two of your pieces and played for our small recital at Christmas. She played them just beautifully and it actually brought tears to my husband's eyes. He thinks it is so wonderful that these neighbor kids know enough about piano now to play something like your songs, because I did not have any piano teaching experience before these kids and that was about 6+ years ago. We are very proud of them to have come this far, because they are in so many other good things too, and piano is just ONE of their interests. Piano practice has many competitions for time in their lives.
    Thank you so very much for inspiring all of us.

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