Musical Masterworks 2007-2008 - Jeewon Park

Jeewon Park

Pianist Jeewon Park is rapidly garnering the attention of audiences throughout the world for her dazzling technique and poetic lyricism. Since making her debut at the age of 12 with the Korean Symphony Orchestra performing Chopin’s First Concerto, Ms. Park has appeared as a recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestra throughout the United States, Mexico, Europe and Asia.

During the 2006-2007 season, Ms. Park gave solo recitals at Caramoor, Norfolk Festival, New York’s Steinway Hall, and chamber music concerts at Spoleto USA Festival, Bargemusic, Beethoven Festival (NY), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rubin Museum in New York, Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, San Antonio Chamber Music Society, and the Hill and Hollow Music festival (NY), among others. Following her February 2006 performance of Mozart Concerto K. 453 with the Charleston Symphony (SC), The Post and Courier wrote that Ms. Park “demonstrated rare skill and sensitivity, playing with a feline grace and glittering dexterity…. lyrical phrasing and pearly tone quality.” 

Ms. Park has appeared in solo and chamber music concerts at such venues as Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Emilia-Romagna Festival (Italy), Taos Music Festival (NM), Music Alp in Courchevel (France), and Kusatsu Summer Music Festival (Japan). In recent seasons, Ms. Park has appeared abroad as a soloist with Mexico National Philharmonic, Mexico State Symphony, Monterey Symphony, as well as with orchestras in her native country, including the Korea Broadcasting System (KBS) Orchestra, Korean Symphony, and Yonsei Philharmonic. She has been heard in numerous live broadcasts on NPR and New York’s Classical Radio Station, WQXR. Additionally, her performances have been nationally broadcast on KBS and EBS TV throughout Korea. 

Jeewon Park moved to the United States in the summer of 2002, after having won practically all of the major honors in Korea, most notably the First Prize in the 1997 JoongAng National Times Competition and the 2000 Korea Broadcasting System Symphony Orchestra Competition. Ms. Park holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Yale University, where she studied with Herbert Stessin and Claude Frank.