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Jeewon Park
Jeewon Park

Praised for her “deeply reflective” playing (Indianapolis Star), Korean-born pianist Jeewon Park is rapidly garnering the attention of audiences for her dazzling technique and poetic lyricism. Since making her debut at the age of 12 performing Chopin’s First Concerto with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Park has performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, 92nd Street Y, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kravis Center, and Seoul Arts Center in Korea.

The 2009-2010 season takes Ms. Park to major concert halls across the U. S. and Korea, where she will make her debut performances at the Metropolitan Museum’s Grace Rainey Roger Auditorium, Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, Vilar Performing Arts Center, and recitals at Barge Music in New York City, and Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, among others. In addition, she returns to the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival for two winter concerts, Caramoor International Music Festival as a member of Caramoor Virtuosi where she was named a Rising Star in 2007, and the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival where she will collaborate with such distinguished artists as Ani Kavafian, Peter Wiley, Cynthia Phelps and Carter Brey.

Recent and current highlights include several performances of Mozart Piano Concertos K. 414 and K. 415, a recital of Messiaen Preludes and Kurtag Jatekok, a solo recital and Mendelssohn 200th birthday celebration concert at Caramoor, and U.S. tours with the “Charles Wadsworth and Friends” series. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Charleston Symphony, the Mexico City Philharmonic, the Monterrey Symphony, the Mexico State Symphony, and the KBS Symphony Orchestra. Following her performance of the Mozart Concerto K. 453 with the Charleston Symphony, the Post and Courier acclaimed that “Park demonstrated rare skill and sensitivity, playing with a feline grace and glittering dexterity . . . lyrical phrasing and pearly tone quality.”

An avid chamber musician, Jeewon Park has performed at prominent festivals throughout the world, including the Spoleto USA, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, the Appalachian Summer Festival, the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, the Taos Summer Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Emilia-Romagna Festival (Italy), the Music Alp in Courchevel (France), and the Kusatsu Summer Music Festival (Japan). She is regularly invited to collaborate with the members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble, and has performed with the Fine Arts, Miami, and Biava Quartets. Since 2008, Ms. Park has toured across the U.S. in duo recitals with violinist Chee-Yun.

Ms. Park has been heard in numerous live broadcasts on National Public Radio and New York’s Classical Radio Station, WQXR. Additionally, her performances have been nationally broadcast throughout Korea on KBS television. She came to the U. S. in 2002, after having won all the major competitions in Korea, most notably Joong-Ang and KBS competitions. Ms. Park is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Yale University, where she was awarded the Dean Horatio Parker Prize. Her teachers include Young-Ho Kim, Herbert Stessin, Claude Frank and Gilbert Kalish.

 

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