Hyeyoon Park

At the age of just 22, HyeyoonPark has emerged as one of the most promising violinists of her generation. She received the prestigious London Music Masters Award 2012-2015. Prior to that she was awarded the London Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2011 and at the age of 17 years, she was the youngest ever winner of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, winning the First Prize along with two special prizes.

Hyeyoon Park made her orchestra debut at the age of nine with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then, she has performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, hr Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Mariinsky-Theatre St. Petersburg and the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo as well as the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Tokyo.

The highlights for the 2014/15 season include her Italian debut at the Paganini Festival in Liguria performing Paganini’s violin concerto, a performance of Bruch violin concerto with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Prokofiev’s 2nd concerto with Northern Sinfonia and Ainars Rubikis in Newcastle. In Germany she performs the Korngold concerto with Munich Symphony Orchestra and with Essen Philharmoniker.

On the invitation of Mitsuko Uchida, Hyeyoon Park gave her debut at the prestigious Marlboro Festival in summer 2013 and will return in 2015. She appears regularly as a recitalist and chamber musician at international festivals and venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Musical Olympus and Les Violons de la Paix. She has performed with Gidon Kremer, Andras Schiff, Yuri Bashmet, Lars Vogt, Daniel Hope, Alban Gerhardt, Antje Weithaas and Jan Vogler. In the 2014/15 season she performs recitals throughout Germany with duo partner, pianist Florian Uhlig.

Her exceptional talent has been demonstrated by other numerous national and international prizes. At the age of six, she was awarded the Grand Prize at the Hankookilbo Competition in Korea. In 2007, she won the first prize at the 5th International Louis Spohr Competition in Weimar, Germany along with the Best Interpretation of Paganini Caprice Prize. In addition she received the Prince of Hesse prize from Kronberg Violin Masterclasses 2009.

Born in 1992 in Seoul, South Korea, HyeyoonPark started to play the violin at the age of four and began to study at the junior colleague of the Korean National University of Arts two years later. From 2003, she studied with Piotr Milewski at the junior college of the University of Cincinnati in the U.S., and since 2006, she has studied at the Hochschule fuer Musik "Hanns Eisler" with Antje Weithaas in Berlin, Germany. From 2010, HyeyoonPark is a Young Soloist at KronbergAcademy with Christian Tetzlaff. These studies are funded by the Nikolas Gruber Stipendium. She has taken masterclasses with Gidon Kremer, Ivry Gitlis, Zakhar Bron and Thomas Brandis.

Hyeyoon Park plays a violin of the German violinmaker Stefan Peter Greiner.