Jeewon park biography sample

A highlight of the Arts Center’s 2019 season was the October performance by the gifted musicians Jeewon Park, pianist, and Ed Arron, cellist. In September of 2022, Ms. Park was invited as the guest leader, pianist and curator for the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra chamber music series in Korea.

Mendelssohn was a prodigiously gifted composer, virtuoso pianist, organist, perceptive music historian, respected conductor, visionary educator, a skillful painter and well-traveled, erudite, multilingual, highly articulate, and widely read—the embodiment of a Renaissance Man. Written during a creative period at the height of his powers, the music reflects a compositional approach characterized by classical balance, elegance in style and demeanor, and accessible melody colored by the mid-century Romantic ethos into which he was born, with sweeping waves of emotion, bold statements, and brilliant displays.

Arranged for piano 4-hands, it depicts late-1920s impressions of an American visitor strolling about Paris, listening to street sounds, experiencing homesickness, and absorbing the French atmosphere of musical intimacy and theatricality. She is an avid gardener and an interior design enthusiast. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Mr.

Arron currently serves on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Korean-American pianist Jeewon Park has garnered worldwide fame as a remarkably lyrical and poetic musician with dazzling technique and extensive repertoire. In 2021, Ms. Park’s recording of Beethoven’s Complete Works for Cello and Piano with cellist Edward Arron was released on the Aeolian Classics Record Label.

USCB Chamber Music’s third concert of its 45th season, February 16, 5:00, will be performed at the USCB Center for the Arts, 801 Carteret Street, Beaufort.

Praised for her “deeply reflective playing”(Indianapolis Star) and “infectious exuberance” (New York Times), Korean-American pianist Jeewon Park has garnered worldwide acclaim as a remarkably lyrical and poetic musician with dazzling technique and extensive repertoire.

Estonian Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel (“mirror in the mirror”) for cello and piano refers to two mirrors facing each other and theoretically producing perpetually repeating visual images. OnDemand is accessible four days after the concert and available to view at your leisure for three weeks. She volunteers for The Guiding Eyes for the Blind as a puppy raiser.

A dedicated teacher, she served on piano faculty at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has given master classes at Swarthmore College, Williams College, University of Washington, and University of South Carolina, among others. She came to the US in 2002 after winning all major competitions in Korea. She is a frequent performer at Bargemusic and Caramoor International Music Festival where she was named a Rising Star in 2007.

She has performed at virtually all of the prestigious chamber music series and festivals in the United States and many more across Europe and Asia. Acclaimed by listeners, critics, and attendees of this Series for his passionate engagement, impish good humor, brilliant technique, and extensive repertoire, his unquenchable energy and belief in the power of music has led him recently to create new chamber music series in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York City, and Greenville, in addition to the continued stewardship of two flourishing series in Beaufort and Columbia.

She has premiered important new works by leading composers such as David Ludwig, Lisa Bielawa, Nick DiBerardino, and Paul Moravec. She came to the U.S. in 2002, after having won all the major competitions in Korea, most notably Joong-Ang and KBS competitions. Park has been heard in numerous live broadcasts on National Public Radio and New York’s Classical Radio Station, WQXR.