Grace Park (violinist)

Grace Park is an American violinist. She was first prize winner at the Naumberg Competition in 2018.

Biography

Grace Park was born in Los Angeles and began to study violin at the age of five. As a child she played with Disney's Young Musicians' Symphony Orchestra from 1997 through 1999, playing at venues that included the Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center. She played with the Cal State LA University Orchestra in 1996 and in live broadcasts on local radio stations KUSC and KKGO. As a fourteen-year-old she played an hour long program on a Korean television station, KBS, that included the "Méditation" from Thaïs and the Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto.[1]

She studied violin at the Colburn School of Music, then later Colburn Conservatory and New England Conservatory. Her teachers included Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Sylvia Rosenberg, and Robert Lipsett.[2][1]

She has performed as a soloist at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall, The Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Jordan Hall, Rockefeller University, the Colorado Music Festival, Bard Music Festival, Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall with the New York Youth Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, The Sarasota Orchestra, The Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, Texarkana Symphony Orchestra, The Rudolfinum/Dvořák Hall in Prague with Prague Philharmonia, North Czech Philharmonia, Russian Chamber Philharmonic, and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, and many other venues and ensembles.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Park has also given recitals at Weill Recital Hall, presented by the Walter W. Naumberg Foundation,[11] the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Beethoven Minnesota Festival, and Merkin Hall among many other places.[2][12][13]

Park performed solo Bach with Yo-Yo Ma at New York City Center and worked with Maxim Vengerov at the Cartagena International Music Festival.[13]

In 2019 she was the featured artist at the WQXR Young Artists Showcase where she played a program of Dvořák, Brahms, and Beethoven with Joseph Liccardo.[14]

In 2025 she released her debut album on the Orchid Classics label. She performed with Emmanuel Villaume and the Prague Philharmonia. The album included Dvořák's Four Romantic Pieces, in a new orchestration by Alex Fortes, and Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5.[4]

Park was appointed concertmaster of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in 2025. She also will also create a chamber music series there featuring musicians from the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and guest soloists.[2]

As a chamber musician she has played regularly with Manhattan Chamber Players, Carnegie Hall's Ensemble Connect, and Ensemble Mélange, among many other groups.[15][16][17][18]

She performs on a 1717 Giuseppe Guarneri 'filius Andreae' violin on loan from an anonymous sponsor.[2]

Discography

  • 2025 Grace Park: Dvořák, Mozart (Grace Park / Prague Philharmonia / Emmanuel Villaume)
  • 2022 Andy Akiho: Oculus[19]

References

  1. ^ a b "Violinist Grace Park Takes a Major Step With Performance in Korea – 미주 한국일보". www.koreatimes.com (in Korean). Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d "Virginia Symphony Orchestra appoints new concertmaster". The Strad. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  3. ^ "Breaking | Prizes Awarded at New York's Naumburg International Violin Competition". TheViolinChannel.com. November 17, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  4. ^ a b "Violinist Grace Park's Debut Album of Works by Dvořák and Mozart". TheViolinChannel.com. March 17, 2025. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  5. ^ "Grace Park to make her debut recital at Carnegie Hall". NYS Music. January 28, 2022. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  6. ^ Handelman, Jay. "Prize-winning violinist joins Sarasota Orchestra for new Masterworks concerts". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  7. ^ "MSO announces 27th season, 'Adventures in Classical Music'". Coastal Point. September 3, 2024. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  8. ^ Parks, Steve (September 27, 2024). "Spy Review: Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra Season-Opener, by Steve Parks – Chestertown Spy". Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  9. ^ "Colorado Music Festival returns with a sparkling, sentimental series of concerts". Boulder Daily Camera. June 26, 2023. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  10. ^ "Grace Park". Operabase. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  11. ^ Hodges, Bruce. "Concert review: Grace Park (violin) Joseph Liccardo (piano)". The Strad. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  12. ^ Frayne, John (February 2, 2020). "John Frayne | Violinist Park put on quite a show at recital". The News-Gazette. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  13. ^ a b Musbach, Julie. "GatherNYC Continues Weekly Sunday Morning Concerts with Grace Park & Jenny Lin". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  14. ^ "Violinist Grace Park | Young Artists Showcase". WQXR. November 6, 2019. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  15. ^ Westberg, Megan (May 11, 2017). "Onstage Review: Manhattan Chamber Players Take on Fauré's Tumultuous Year". Strings Magazine. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  16. ^ Edwards, David Noel (April 28, 2023). "REVIEW: Manhattan Chamber Players dazzle with insanely precise Copland, Mendelssohn, Bach for Close Encounters with Music". The Berkshire Edge. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  17. ^ Rodgers, David K. (August 6, 2024). "Chamber Players Concert Resonates with Sophisticated Audience". The Hardwick Gazette. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  18. ^ Nicoletti, Kimberly (March 29, 2024). "Ensemble Mélange comes to Beaver Creek to engage audiences, as you select the music". Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  19. ^ Grace Park Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More at AllMusic
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