ABOUT US
Our PeopleJong-Gyung Park
Ms. Park has performed in recitals throughout the United States, South America, Europe, Israel, and the Far East. Her concert activities include solo and chamber music recitals in concert series in Solothurn, Switzerland, the Royal theatre of Monnaie in Brussels, the Sala Verdi in Milan and the Seoul Arts Centre. She is regularly invited to give masterclasses in the United States, Korea, and South America.
Jong-Gyung Park began piano lessons in her native Korea at the age of three. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory in Boston, United States taught by Russell Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun under full scholarship, and holds an Artist’s Diploma from the Hochschule für Music und Theatre in Munich, Germany in class of Elisso Wirssaladze. She was also invited to study at the International Piano Foundation Academy in Lake Como, Italy where she studied with Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts’ong and Charles Rosen among others.
Ms. Park has received numerous international awards including Bronze medals at the Sviatoslav Richter International piano competition, and the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Italy where she also received Busoni Prize for commissioned work and the 9th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition in Israel and Laureate at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Belgium. She lives and works in United Kingdom.