Official Trailer ✅: Season 3 Episode 12, Jee-Hoon Krska -- Founder of Keys 2 Success & Pianist

3 Feb 2023 · 2 min

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This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube trailer titled "Official Trailer ✅: Season 3 Episode 12, Jee-Hoon Krska -- Founder of Keys 2 Success & Pianist" (uploaded 2023-02-03). The excerpt is an English interview-style promo featuring Jee-Hoon Krska (founder of Keys to Success, engineer, and pianist) and an interviewer (labeled SPEAKER A). Krska recounts stopping piano after his son was born, later returning to play with a former MIT teacher and the Boston Pops, and explains how that experience inspired him to start Keys to Success and combine music with volunteering; the clip closes with a promo to join the Season 3, Episode 12 premiere on The Piano Pod's YouTube channel on Feb 7 at 8 PM ET.

What do you think about your musical career? Did it help to be a good engineer or good student at MIT and eventually to be the founder of organization?
I never thought about what it meant for many, many years. And actually, in 2001, I stopped playing the piano. So 2001, my son was born, and I thought, uh, I gotta focus on my career and raising my son, so something has to So I gave up piano, completely stopped playing it. This went on for more than a decade. And then out of the blue, my piano teacher from MIT, you know, who concertizes quite a bit with, uh, um, in the Boston area, he writes me a handwritten letter and he said, "Hey, listen, I've been invited to be a soloist with The Piano Pod with the Boston Pops, and I thought it'd be fun if the two of us played the Mozart Two Piano Concerto." He had no idea that I Have you stopped playing piano?
So I said, oh yeah, of course.
I took a bunch of time off work actually to just like brush up on piano again. But what that made me realize, playing the piano gave me— gave my life some— a different dimension that I wouldn't have had if it wasn't for music. So actually it was that realization that made me stop and think, oh, I wonder if that's something I can do in the work. So during my whole career in engineering, my family and I, we have been involved in the work volunteering. When this happened with the Boston Pops, I realized I could give them maybe some music, music lessons, which could possibly open up new doors for them. Who knows what's going to happen, right? So that's kind of the very long-winded way of answering, you know, how I got to starting, you know, Keys to Success, right? And what music had meant to me all these years.
To continue listening to the conversation with Dr. Jihoon Kurska, founder of Keys to Success, engineer, and pianist, please join the premiere of Season 3, Episode 12 this Tuesday, February 7th at 8 PM Eastern Time on The Piano Pod's YouTube channel. Go to the link in our bio or in the description to set the reminder. See you on Tuesday!