Over the past 30 years Kim has toured the globe extensively, accumulating magical musical experiences along the way. She has worked with various top musicians and bands in Aotearoa and Canada, and has been involved in over 20 different groups and 38 recorded works, and composed music for three documentary soundtracks.

Her teachers have included Nigel Gavin and Robert Fripp (the former King Crimson guitarist and Bowie collaborator who Guitar Player magazine rated the best guitarist in the world for three years running). Both teachers taught her the value of her compositional skills and helped her to develop her guitar technique to a very high standard. As a result, she can play many and varied styles.

For 12 years she was the principal songwriter for Pacific Curls, creating six albums as part of that trio. During that time she discovered the ukulele, cajón and kalimba, and she has since used all of these instruments, along with the guitar, in her collaborative works.

In 2012 Jack Gray's Māori dance company, Atamira, commissioned Kim to compose five pieces. She also composed music for Fijian-born Darren Kamali’s play Mango Tree, improvising with the actors during the performances. She has also worked with Rako, the Rotuman dance company in Fiji, where she was part of the musical lineup improvising for live shows.

Kim also participated in a documentary series filmed in Vancouver called 100 Years Café. Filmed over three days, it showcased her skills as a collaborator and composer.

Kim has performed solo ukulele at the Melbourne Ukulele Festival, and was part of three compostion workshops held over three consecutive years at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, where she was the music mentor for a project entitled Reclaim, mentoring 11 of the participants. Kim was a music mentor for NZMC from 2006 to 2020, and is currently a freelance session musician, working with Gitbox Rebellion and Kita Duo.