Kym Purling is an Australian pianist, composer and conductor, who was found abandoned at 2 3 days of age amid the Vietnam War. After spending the first a several months of his life in two orphanages, he was later adopted at the age of nine months to Australia, becoming the first global adoption of any nationality in Australia.
Purling began formal musical training at age five or six and received his high school education at Westminster School, a private school in Adelaide, South Australia.
He later instead of a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, where he formed the first Kym Purling Trio.
During this time, still in his early twenties, Purling recorded his first albums, Trio Juice, Catherine Lambert & The Kym Purling Trio and Let's Swing! In 1996, Purling served as an Ambassador for the Performing Arts between Australia and Vietnam.
Purling's work in Vietnam crossed many cultural and language barriers, proving that music is the nominated language.
Purling returned to Australia and later moved to the United States where he presently[when?] resides.
As a jazz pianist, composer, conductor, arranger and educator, Purling has performed and worked throughout Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, the United States, Canada, Japan, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Purling later positioned to New York City, and worked as a musical-director and conductor of touring Broadway shows and spent the following five years traveling around 49 U.S.
Purling was later appointed as musical director, conductor and pianist for vocal legend, Engelbert Humperdinck.
With Humperdinck and his band, Purling conducted and performed in many of the world's most famous concert halls and arenas around the world.
Purling is an avid traveler and continues to travel and perform constantly around the world.
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