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| Donald Weilerstein bio |
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| Atar Arad bio |
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| Marcy Rosen bio |
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| Sun-Mi Chang bio |
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| Lily Francis bio |
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| Stefan Jackiw bio |
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| Mark Holloway bio |
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| Dmitry Kouzov bio |
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| Jeewon Park bio |
2007 RISING STARS BIO
Donald Weilerstein, Co-director for Rising Stars, violin - Donald Weilerstein has concertized extensively as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the world. He studied at The Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian, Dorothy Delay and members of the Juilliard String Quartet, and was honored at graduation by the National Foundation of the Arts as an outstanding graduate of the school. He was a member of the Young Concert Artists and a participant in the Marlboro Music Festival, performing on several Music from Marlboro tours. In 1968 he won the Munich International Competition for violin and piano duo.
For twenty years (1969-1989) Mr. Weilerstein was the first violinist of the renowned Cleveland Quartet with whom he toured the world. His recordings with the quartet can be heard on the RCA, Telarc, CBS, Phillips and Pro Arte labels. These recordings have earned seven Grammy nominations and won Best of the Year awards from Time and Stereo Review.
Mr. Weilerstein has taught and performed at such major American and European music festivals as Caramoor, Tanglewood, Aspen, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Salzburg, Luzern, Verbier, Ishikawa , Keshet Eilon, "Chamber Music Encounters" sponsored by La Cite de la Musique and the Paris Conservatory and many more. He regularly teaches and performs at the Steans Institute in Ravinia, the Yellow Barn Music Festival and at the Perlman Music Program.
Mr. Weilerstein performs as a duo recitalist with pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein. The Duo was enthusiastically received at Alice Tully Hall and the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and in the major American cities. Their discography includes the complete works of Ernest Bloch for violin and piano, and the Janacek, Dohnanyi and Enescu Sonatas for Arabesque, as well as the complete Schumann Sonatas for Azica Records. Mr. Weilerstein is also very active as a member of the highly acclaimed Weilerstein Trio which is in residence at the New England Conservatory of Music. Their CD for Koch records was released in January 2006 and features trios of Dvorak.
Recently featured in Strad Magazine, Mr. Weilerstein was formerly a professor of violin and chamber music at the Eastman School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School. His students have been prize winners in major national and international competitions, including first prizes in the Indianapolis, Naumburg and Hanover competitions and 2nd prize in the Brussels competition. His students can be heard in many of today's leading orchestras and chamber ensembles.
Atar Arad, Distinguished Artist, viola - Atar Arad was born in Tel Aviv, where he began his early musical education and violin studies. In 1968 he was one of a few young artists to be selected to study in the renowned Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth under the patronage of the Queen of Belgium.
In 1971, drawn by the deep, warm sound of the viola and its broad but unfamiliar repertoire, he decided to devote himself to this instrument and its music. The following year, in July, 1972 in his first appearance as a violist, he won the City of London Prize as a laureate of the Carl Flesch Competition for violin and viola. Two months later he was awarded the First Prize at the International Viola Competition in Geneva by a unanimous decision of the jury.
Numerous concerts followed -- as soloist with major orchestras, and in recitals at some of Europe's most prestigious festivals. Arad's recordings for Telefunken are widely acclaimed. His Sonata per la Grand' Viola e Orchestra by Paganini was considered by stringed-instrument lovers and critics alike to be an astonishing demonstration of the technical capabilities of the viola. His album in collaboration with pianist Evelyne Brancart, was praised by High Fidelity Magazine as being "...perhaps the best-played viola recital ever recorded".
In 1980 Arad moved from London to the U.S. in order to become a member of the Cleveland Quartet for the next seven years. With this great Quartet he toured throughout the U.S., South America, Western and Eastern Europe, Israel and Japan, collaborating with many leading musicians (such as pianists Istomin, Curzon, Ax, Dichter and Kovacevich, violists Schidloff and Laredo, Cellists Ma and Rostropovich, flutists Gallway and Rampal, and clarinetist Stolzmann to name but a few), recording for labels such as RCA, CBS and Telarc, and appearing in music festivals including Aspen, Berlin, Edinburgh, Flanders, Israel, New York Mostly Mozart and Carnegie Hall, Paris, Salzburg, and many more. During that time he held the position of a Professor of Viola at the Eastman School of Music.
Arad was an artist/faculty member at the Aspen School and Festival. He also taught at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, TX, and served as an artist/lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He currently teaches at Indiana University, Bloomington, and at the Steans Institute (Ravinia Festival) in Chicago.
Arad appeared as a regular guest artist with Houston's Da Camera Society, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Upper Galilee Chamber Music Days (Israel), the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival , Chamber Music Intenational in Dallas, Sitka Festival, Chautauqua Festival and Ravinia Music Festival.
Arad has published two important essays; The Thirteen Pages (The American String Teacher, Winter 1988) dealing with the authenticity of Bartok's Viola Concerto and Walton As Scapino (The Strad, February 1989), which reveals a number of unusual compositional procedures used by William Walton in his Viola Concerto.
In 1992 he wrote his first musical composition - a Solo Sonata for Viola. The Sonata was premiered by him in 1993 as part of Arad's recital at the Viola Congress in Chicago and was published by the Israel Music Institute (1995). Violist Roland Glassl, the winner of 1997 Tertis International Competition gave the London premier of the Sonata in 1998 at the Wigmore Hall.
In 1998 Arad completed his String Quartet which was premiered in Bloomington on April 1999 by the Corigliano Quartet. The Herald Times greatly appreciated the piece, concluding its review by stating: Here is an assured composition, one that deserves life off the shelves and in concerts halls. It doesn't make for easy listening, but it prompts involvement and invites praise.
A frequent guest with today1s leading String Quartets and musicians, Arad has performed with the Guarneri, Emersson, Tokyo, Mendelssohn, American, Chillingrian, Vermeer, Corigliano and New Zealand String Quartets as well as violinists such as Zuckermann, Fried, Bell and Weilerstein, violists Strongin-Katz, Tree and Biss, cellists Starker, Geringas, Hoffman, Katz and Edy, pianists Eschenbach, Frank, Pressler, Hokanson, Kalisch, and Brancart. Recent performances as a soloist include the Louisville Orchestra with conductor Segal, the Xalapa Orchestra with conductor Effron, The Brazil Symphony with conductor Batiz. . He also performed with the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra at the closing concert of the Viola Congress in Wellington, and gave the Mexican premier of the Schnittke viola Concerto with conductor Zollman, under whose baton he also performed with Haifa Simphony along with violinist Hagai Shaham.
In August of 2003, Arad premiered his new three Caprices for Viola, as a part of his recital at the Tertis International Competition and Workshop, where he also gave a master class and served as a judge. He will also judge the 2004 Munich International Competition.
Marcy Rosen, Distinguished Artist, cello - Marcy Rosen has established herself as one of the most important and respected artists of our day. Los Angeles Times music critic Herbert Glass has called her “one of the intimate art’s abiding treasures.” She has performed in recital and with orchestra throughout Canada, England, France, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, and all fifty of the United States.
A consummate soloist, Ms. Rosen’s superb musicianship is enhanced by her many chamber music activities. A founding member of the world renowned Mendelssohn String Quartet, she was Artist-in-Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts and for nine years served as Blodgett-Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University. With the Mendelssohn String Quartet she tours annually throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Ms. Rosen also performs with and is a founding member of the ensemble La Fenice, a group comprised of Oboe, Piano and String Trio.
She appears regularly at festivals both here and abroad and since1986 has been the co-artistic director of the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival in Maryland. Another important association is with the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. Since first attending Marlboro in 1975, she has taken part in 17 of their “Musicians from Marlboro” tours and performed in concerts celebrating the 40th and 50th Anniversaries of the Festival.
Marcy Rosen was born in Phoenix, Arizona and her teachers have included Gordon Epperson, Orlando Cole, Marcus Adeney, Felix Galimir, Karen Tuttle and Sandor Vegh. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. Ms. Rosen is currently Associate Professor of Cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and serves on the Faculty at the Mannes College of Music in New York City.
A new CD with collaborators Frances Rowell, cello and Lydia Artymiw, piano featuring the Sonata for Two cellos by Sir Donald Francis Tovey, and the Sonatas for Cello and Piano by Ludwig Thuille and Ernst von Dohnanyi. will be released on Bridge Records in 2008. Other recorded performances can be heard on the BIS, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, CBS Masterworks, Musical Heritage Society, Phillips, Nonesuch, Pro Arte and Koch labels among others. You can visit her website at www.marcyrosen.com.
Sun-Mi Chang, violin - Sun-Mi Chang started playing the violin at the age of 7 with Professor Nam-Yun Kim in South Korea. Before coming to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England in 1995, she had already won several national competitions such as the Wol-Gan Music Competition, the 20th Junior Korean Newspaper Competition and Cho-Sun Daily Newspaper Competition.
While studying at the Yehudi Mehuhin School in England, Ms. Chang performed regularly in concerts organized by the school in various concert halls, including the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Purcell Room. In 1998 & 1999 she also had concert tours with the Yehudi Menuhin School orchestra playing the Bach Double Concerto for 2 violins conducted by Lord Menuhin in UNESCO Headquarter in Paris, Guilford Cathedral.
After graduating from the YMS, Ms. Chang went to Germany to continue pursuing a musical career and to study at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin with Professor Eberhard Feltz. Ms. Chang has taken part in various master classes and summer festivals with Mauricio Fuks, Maya Glezarova, Felix Andrievsky, Zakhar Bron, Robert Masters, Zvi Zeitlin, Rainer Kussmaul, Boris Kuschnir, Igor Ozim, Midori and Lord Menuhin. In 2006 she won the Woolsey Hall concerto competition at the Yale School of Music, where she is currently studying with Professor Peter Oundjian, and has performed the Bartok Violin Concerto No.2 with the Yale Philharmonia. She has taken part in the Caramoor Rising Stars Series in 2006 and has worked with renowned artists such as Kim Kashkashian, Ani Kavafian and Edward Arron. In May 2007 she won the 2nd Prize in the Markneukirchen International Violin Competition in Germany, a member of world federation of international music competitions.
Lily Francis, violin - Lily Francis is an up-and-coming chamber musician, sought after both as a violinist and a violist. She is a member of Chamber Music Society Two, the residency program for distinguished young artists. As part of CMS Two, she regularly peforms at Lincoln Center, in the Rose Studio and Alice Tully Hall. She received her Bachelor's degree from the Curtis Institute, studying with Joseph Silverstein, and is now a Master's candidate at New England Conservatory, with Miriam Fried. Her other teachers have included Teri Einfeldt, Brian Lewis, and Philip Setzer. In addition, she began viola studies in the fall of 2005, with Steven Tenenbom.
Ms. Francis made her debut with the Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra, and has since soloed with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra on their Masterworks Series, the Connecticut Virtuosi, the Brockton Symphony Orchestra, and the New Britain Symphony. In addition, she has been top prizewinner in several competitions, including the Hartford Symphony Young Artist’s Concerto Competition, the Paderewski Competition, and she received the Howard Beebe String Award for Solo Bach Performance at the Corpus Christi International Competition.
Ms. Francis is the violist of the Vertigo String Quartet, which has performed throughout the Philadelphia area, and in Ischia, Italy, at the home of Lady Walton, widow of Sir William Walton. The Vertigos also traveled to Atri, Italy, where they took First Prize in Chamber Music at the 2nd Competition of the Duchi D'Acquaviva. They recorded the soundscape for Michael Hollinger's award-winning play "Opus", and received a Barrymore Award for their unique collaboration. They have appeared at Music From Angel Fire, New Mexico and have performed numerous times at BargeMusic in Brooklyn, where they will be in residence for 2007-08.
Ms. Francis has attended several summer festivals, including Marlboro, Aspen, Greenwood, and Yellow Barn. She has been privileged to play alongside such distinguished artists as Richard Goode, Gilbert Kalish, Kim Kashkashian, Ida Kavafian, Ani Kavafian, Anton Kuerti, Steven Tenenbom, Mitsuko Uchida and Peter Wiley. She has appeared at Bridgehampton, Caramoor's Rising Stars series, Mostly Music series with Carter Brey, Musicians from Marlboro, and at Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
Stefan Jackiw, violin - Violinist Stefan Jackiw is already recognized as one of the most significant artists of his generation. At age twenty-two, he has embarked on an impressive performing career. In recent seasons Mr. Jackiw has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic, the Indianapolis, Oregon, Pittsburgh and Rochester symphonies, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Caramoor, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Pops, with whom he made his debut in 1997, playing the Wieniawski Violin Concerto No. 2 under Keith Lockhart.
In the spring of 2000 Mr. Jackiw made his European debut in London to great critical acclaim, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Benjamin Zander. His sensational London debut was featured on the front page of The Times, and The Strad described the event as “a fourteen-year-old violinist took the London music world by storm.” In Europe, Mr. Jackiw has also performed with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and most recently, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. In September 2002 Mr. Jackiw made his debut with the Baltimore Symphony under Yuri Temirkanov, followed by a tour of Japan with the orchestra that featured his Tokyo debut at Suntory Hall. Also in 2002 he made debuts under Roberto Abbado with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as well as with the l’Orchestra del Maggio Musical Florentino. His performance with the Boston Symphony was selected by the Boston Globe as one of the top two solo appearances of the year. Later that season Mr. Jackiw made his Chicago Symphony debut, also conducted by Abbado. In December 2003 he was invited by Temirkanov to play the Barber Violin Concerto as part of the Winter Arts Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. In the 2004-2005 season Mr. Jackiw made his debut with the Seattle Symphony, conducted by Gerard Schwarz. The Seattle Times chose this performance as the best debut of the year. During this season, he made a return appearance with the Baltimore Symphony and Yuri Temirkanov.
Mr. Jackiw is an active recitalist, having already performed on numerous important series. In the summer of 2001 Mr. Jackiw was invited to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, where Christoph Eschenbach presented him in a collaborative recital. He has performed on the Rising Stars Series of the Ravinia Festival and on the Boston Celebrity Series in recital at Jordan Hall. In 2004 Mr. Jackiw gave his New York recital debut on the “Accolades” series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as his Paris recital debut on the Concerts du Jeudi series at the Louvre. At the opening night of Zankel Hall in New York, Jackiw was the only young artist invited to perform, alongside Emanuel Ax, Renée Fleming, Evgeny Kissin and James Levine.
Highlights of recent seasons include a return recital engagement on the Boston Celebrity Series, a debut with the Seoul Philharmonic performing the Bruch Scottish Fantasy and a month-long tour with the Asian Youth Orchestra performing in China, Japan and Taiwan. In the 2006-2007 season Mr. Jackiw returned to the Seattle, Baltimore and Eugene (OR) symphonies, appeared with the Boston Philharmonic and the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, Ireland and was soloist on a U.S. tour with the Moscow State Orchestra performing the Tchaikovsky concerto under Maestro Pavel Kogan.
Born to physicist parents, Mr. Jackiw began playing the violin at the age of 4. His past teachers include Zinaida Gilels and Michèle Auclair. He graduated from Harvard University in 2007. While at Harvard he also completed the Artist Diploma degree at the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Donald Weilerstein. In 2002 Mr. Jackiw was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Mark Holloway, violin - received his diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Michael Tree, and a B.M. Summa cum laude from Boston University's School of Music where he was a Presser Scholar and a student of Michelle LaCourse. Mr. Holloway was principal violist of the Haddonfield Symphony and twice principal violist and chamber musician of the NY String Orchestra under Jaime Laredo. He received first prize in the American String Teachers' Association MA Competition and was a member and guest principal violist of both the Portland Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. He has played at Bargemusic, at New York’s 92nd Street Y with Jaime Laredo, Ida Kavafian, and Sharon Robinson, on WQXR-NY’s Young Artists’ Showcase, live on Boston’s WGBH, and with the Boston Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Boston Musica Viva, Pennsylvania Ballet, Philly Pops and Metamorphosen.
Mr. Holloway’s current activities include playing as a substitute with the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony, where he has appeared as principal violist, Orpheus, with whom he has also played on tour, and Broadway’s “Les Misérables.” He was principal violist at Tanglewood and has played chamber music at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Angel Fire, Sarasota, Prussia Cove, Banff and Taos festivals. With the Brandenburg Ensemble he played in Florida and at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, with the Charles String Quartet he gave concerts in Russia at the Hermitage and the Moscow Conservatory, and he has played with Yo-Yo Ma, Pinchas Zuckerman, Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson in Carnegie Hall and at the Library of Congress.
Mr. Holloway has also appeared at Caramoor’s “Rising Stars” series and in recital, and with the Boston Chamber Music Society, Richmond Festival of Music, Staunton Music Festival, Jupiter Chamber Players, Mainly Mozart festival, Lyric Chamber Music Society of NY, North Country Chamber Players, Mostly Music festival with Ani Kavafian and Carter Brey, and on tour in the US and Asia with the NY Philharmonic. Next season he will tour with Musicians from Marlboro. A native of Oceanside, NY, Mark now lives in New York City.
Dmitry Kouzov, cello - A versatile performer, cellist Dmitry Kouzov has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Russia with orchestras, in solo and duo recitals and in chamber music performances. He has appeared with such orchestras as the National Symphony of Ukraine, as well as the South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic (Czech Republic) and the North Caucasus and Rostov Philharmonics (Russia). He was awarded First Prize at the International Beethoven Competition in the Czech Republic, and he is a two-time laureate of the International Festival-Competition “Virtuosi of the Year 2000” in Russia. His credits include performances at several prominent concert venues throughout his native Russia, including both St. Petersburg Philharmonic Halls, the conservatoire halls of Moscow and St. Petersburg, respectively, and the Mariinsky Theatre. Mr. Kouzov made his New York orchestral debut at Alice Tully Hall in 2005 under the baton of Maestro Raymond Leppard. Since that time he has also appeared at Merkin Hall and Bargemusic, and during the 2006-07 season, Mr. Kouzov gave his New York recital debut at the 92nd Street Y.
Highlights of Mr. Kouzov’s 2005-06 season included appearances at the Verbier, Aix-En-Provence and Schleswig-Holstein Festivals. In December 2005, Mr. Kouzov performed the entire cycle of Beethoven Cello Sonatas at New York’s Bargemusic with pianist Dmitry Shteinberg and gave a repeat performance at the St. Petersburg State Cappella, paired with the prominent Russian pianist Peter Laul, with whom he has continued to perform since 1991.
Mr. Kouzov has appeared in command performances before Mikhail Gorbachev and Prince Andrew, Duke of York. In 2005, he performed at the prestigious Verbier Festival in Switzerland, and that same year he was a guest artist at the inauguration season of the International Bach Festival in Bern. Additionally, he has performed at the “May of Janacek” Festival in the Czech Republic and the Kiev Summer Music Nights in Ukraine.
A consummate chamber musician, Mr. Kouzov has been invited to collaborate with such esteemed artists as Krzysztof Penderecki, Joshua Bell, Yuri Bashmet and Ilya Gringolts, and he has also performed with the St. Petersburg Chamber Players, the Soloists of St. Petersburg and the Moscow Premiere-Trio. In 2004, Mr. Kouzov joined the Phaedrus String Quartet, and he is a founding and active member of the Manhattan Piano Trio, with whom he has toured extensively throughout the United States. Most recently, in 2006, the Trio captured First Prize at the Plowman Chamber Music Competition.
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Dmitry Kouzov began his musical studies at the age of 7. Since then, he has trained at the St. Petersburg Conservatory Lyceum, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where he earned his Bachelors & Masters of Music degrees, and at The Juilliard School in New York, where he received the institute’s most coveted certificate, the Artist’s Diploma. Mr. Kouzov’s principal teachers have included Professors Mark Reisenstock, Viktoria Yagling, Joel Krosnick and Dr. Darrett Adkins, and he has taken master classes with Maestro Mstislav Rostropovich and Natalia Gutman.
Jeewon Park, piano - Pianist Jeewon Park is rapidly garnering the attention of audiences throughout the world for her dazzling technique and poetic lyricism. Since making her debut at the age of 12 with the Korean Symphony Orchestra performing Chopin’s First Concerto, Ms. Park has appeared as a recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestra throughout the United States, Mexico, Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Japan and her native Korea.
During the 2006-2007 season, Ms. Park will appear in solo and chamber music concerts at such venues and series as Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kravis Center (FL), San Antonio Chamber Music Society, Charles Wadsworth and Friends, and the Hill and Hollow Music festival (NY), among others. Recently, Ms. Park gave solo recitals at Caramoor, Norfolk Festival, New York’s Steinway Hall, and chamber music concerts at Beethoven Festival (NY), Bargemusic, and Emilia-Romagna Festival, Italy, in addition to her regular chamber music collaboration with the musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at the Bronxville Chamber Music Series in New York. Following her February 2006 performance of Mozart Concerto K. 453 with the Charleston Symphony (SC), The Post and Courier wrote that Ms. Park “demonstrated rare skill and sensitivity, playing with a feline grace and glittering dexterity…. lyrical phrasing and pearly tone quality.”
In recent seasons, Ms. Park has appeared abroad as a soloist with Mexico National Philharmonic, Mexico State Symphony, Monterey Symphony, as well as with orchestras in her native country, including the Korea Broadcasting System (KBS) Orchestra, Korean Symphony, and Yonsei Philharmonic. She has also performed at such venues as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Taos Music Festival (NM), Music Alp in Courchevel (France), Kusatsu Summer Music Festival (Japan), and in numerous live broadcasts on NPR and New York’s Classical Radio Station, WQXR. Additionally, her performances have been broadcast on KBS and EBS TV throughout Korea.
Jeewon Park moved to the United States in the summer of 2002, after having won practically all of the major honors in Korea, most notably the First Prize in the 1997 JoongAng National Times Competition and the 2000 Korea Broadcasting System Symphony Orchestra Competition. Ms. Park is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Yale University, where she studied with Herbert Stessin and Claude Frank.
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