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Kavid Do was born as David Jong-Chul Ko in 1997 in Seoul, South Korea. He spent most of his youth in the suburbs of Canada, where he first learned to compose, play the piano, and was dubbed by friends as Kavid Do. In 2014-15 he studied composition privately with Rodney Sharman, and in 2015 he moved to Amsterdam to study at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he studied composition with Joël Bons and Richard Ayres (BMus). He is currently completing his master’s in composition, studying with Richard Ayres and Jorrit Tamminga.
What inspires him musically are the lyric and ethereal qualities in melody, tuning, and timbre. He draws heavily from intonation theory and music production practices such as recording and sound design. His music has been performed in halls such as Korzo, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ and the Orpheum Annex in Vancouver. He has collaborated with visual artists Monica Mays and Min Oh and theatre director Rebekka Nilsson, both as a composer and performer.
He has received scholarships from the Langley Community Music School, British Columbia Arts Council, and the Amsterdam School of the Arts. In 2018, he was awarded a prize at the SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers for his piece Let’s Talk About Heritage.
