Angela Jeanyoung PARK 박진영

PRAISED FOR HER DEEP MUSICIANSHIP, EFFORTLESS TECHNIQUE, AND STRUCTURALLY SOUND INTERPRETATIONS, CELLIST ANGELA PARK IS ESTABLISHING HERSELF AS A COMPELLING MUSICIAN OF HER GENERATION.

 

"DEFT AND SOPHISTICATED" - BOSTON GLOBE

 

Equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician, and educator, Angela Park has performed throughout the North and South Americas, Europe, and East Asia. Notable appearances are solo concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic; chamber music appearances at the Marlboro, Verbier, and Ravinia Festivals; and being on faculty at the Curtis Summerfest and the Korean National University of Arts Preparatory Division.

 

In recent seasons, Angela has performed with Helsinki Baroque, Anne-Sophie Mutter on her Virtuosi European Tour, Incheon Philharmonic, and has returned to the Marlboro Music Festival, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, and Festival de los Siete Lagos in Argentina. In 2012, she was awarded the Silver Medal and Seongyawng Park Talent Award at the International Isang Yun Competition. In the 2017/18 Season, she appears with the Incheon Philharmonic, Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, and Spira Mirabilis on their Italy tour, in addition to recitals in Helsinki and Seoul.

 

With her passion for chamber music, she appears regularly at festivals such as Ravinia, Verbier, Twickenham, and Yeosu Festivals. She has worked with the most inspiring chamber music colleagues including Leonidas Kavakos, Miriam Fried, Peter Wiley, Bruno Canino, Kim Kashkashian, and Richard Goode, and has also performed the concerto repertoire with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) Orchestra, and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.

 

Angela is increasingly in demand as a continuo player. She often performs the Bach Suites in a baroque setup, and has played continuo at the Pyeongchang Music Festival with Helsinki Baroque, as well as for the Gamut Bach Ensemble Philadelphia. In addition to performing standard recital programs, she also has a deep interest in the music of our times and is dedicated to playing the works of living composers, and has taken part in dozens of world premieres.

 

As a writer, Angela is a regular contributor to the online forum Cello Project Korea as interviewer and translator, and was extensively featured on the forum in March 2015. She has also translated Anner Bylsma's book of the first Bach Suites into Korean.

 

Born in 1987 in California to Korean parents, Angela started playing the cello at age 10 with Sungeun Hong and Kyungmi Lim. Performing from an early age soon thereafter, Angela won virtually every competition in Korea and made her debut with the Seoul Philharmonic at the age of 12. At age 14, she started her studies at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music with Peter Wiley and the late Orlando Cole. There started her long relationship and love for the chamber music literature while working with luminaries such as Steven Tenenbom, Pamela Frank, Joseph Silverstein, and Meng-Chieh Liu. While at Curtis, she made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach.

 

Upon graduation, Angela studied with Laurence Lesser at the New England Conservatory, and afterwards moved to Berlin to study with the acclaimed cellist Jens Peter Maintz at the Universität der Künste Berlin in the Konzertexamen Program, where she was a DAAD Scholar (German Academic Exchange), graduating with highest distinction in 2013. Angela has played one season with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mariss Jansons before serving as associate principal of the Seoul Philharmonic, hired by former music director Myung-whun Chung, from 2014 to 2016. Angela plays a 1845 Pierre et Hippolyte Silvestre cello of Lyon and a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume cello, generously on private loan.

 

She currently resides in Berlin, Germany.

 

Representation: Korea, Europe