Biography
Ron Korb is an entrepreneur musician who manages his own record label and has released dozens of bestselling albums around the world. In Asia, he is known as Longdi (Dragon Flute) and is recognized for his excellence in playing numerous Eastern and Western woodwind instruments.
Ron has toured extensively throughout Europe, Canada, USA, Central America, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China. Ron has composed gold and double platinum selling songs for major Asian singers as Alan Tam, Stephanie Lai and Roman Tam and won the award for "Best Original Composition" from Radio and Television Hong Kong.
Ron has played on hundreds of movie soundtracks by various composers. The films include Ang Lee's The Ice Storm and Ride with the Devil, Atom Egoyan's Exotica, Sweet Hereafter, Felicia's Journey and Devil's Knot Mira Nair's Kama Sutra John Woo's Blackjack and the 3D IMAX film Space Station narrated by Tom Cruise. Other credits include Being Julia and Merchant/Ivory's The White Countess starring Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave. In 2013 Ron played on an Emmy winning episode of World Without End by Golden Globe and Academy Award winning composer Mychael Danna.
He has also shared stages with Peter Gabriel, Olivia Newton John, Tia Carrere, Liona Boyd, The Yardbirds, Cesaria Evora, Jane Siberry, Toronto Symphony and Dadawa Zhu Zheqin. Ron has performed for Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister of Canada, Princess Bopha Devi of Cambodia, and was featured on the World Youth Day recording for Pope John Paul.
In 2014 Ron Korb represented Canada at The China Shanghai International Arts Festival's Canadian Culture Week along with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Montreal Symphony. Ron's sold out concert at Shanghai Concert Hall was voted the audience choice by the fans. Asian media has described him as top magical flutist for his unique virtuosity on a wide variety of world woodwinds.
His latest album Asia Beauty released in August 2015 is inspired by Ron's travels in China and uses a wide array of Chinese instruments in a cinematic setting. It has already garnered many enthusiastic reviews and received several awards including: Gold Medal - Best of Show, Best Instrumental Performance (Blue Bamboo), Best Chinese crossover world music (House of the Five Beauties) at the Global Music Awards, Best Instrumental Album, Best Instrumental Song (Two Mountains), Akademia Music Awards and a finalist in the open song category of the International Acoustic Music Awards (Hanoi Cafe).
