Monday, September 11th, 2023, 7:30 pm
Piano on Park Live presents:
Yeon-Min Park
piano
RSVP with Suggested Donation
Program:
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 - 1791)
Rondo in D major, K. 485
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862 - 1918)
Suite Bergamasque
Prélude
Menuet
Clair de lune
Passepied
FRANZ LISZT (1811 - 1886)
Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Intermission
FRANZ LISZT (1811 - 1886)
Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S.534iii
Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S.171
Totentanz for Piano Solo, S.525
About:
“Yeon-min Park swept the music along with bold poetry and arcs of classical symmetry.”
Yeon-Min Park achieved her triumph as the 1st prize winner of the prestigious George Enescu International Music Competition in 2021 as well as a “Special Mention” for the best interpretation of George Enescu’s composition. She also won the 2nd Prize and Audience Prize at the Liszt Utrecht International Competition in 2022.
Since 2021, Yeon-Min Park appeared as the soloist for her debut with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Vladimir Jurowski, Debut at the Golden hall in the Musikverein Vienna, performing with the Slovak Radio Symphony, Netherlands National Radio Philharmonic, Romanian National Radio Symphony, Daegu Philharmonic, Seongnam Philharmonic, Mokpo City Symphony, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic and many more. She also has given solo recitals in Korea, France, Netherlands, Ecuador, Sweden, concert tours in South Africa and appeared numerous festivals like as the Grafenegg Festival, Sand Chopin Festival, Vevey Spring Classic, Karlskrona Festival and Palermo Classica.
She discovered the indescribable passion of becoming a concert pianist since her first solo recital at the age of 23 and immediately embarked on a breathtaking progress on her instrument. During the intervening years, Yeon-Min Park won the 1st prize and audience prize of the Lyon International Piano Competition in 2019, 1st prize of the Suzhou Jinji Lake International Piano Competition in 2017, 1st prize of the 40th Palma d’Oro International Piano Competition, 1st prize of the Hanoi International Piano Competition in 2015, 1st prize of the International Piano Competition in Mayenne in 2016, top prize of Premio Jaen, Beethoven Vienna, Seoul, and Darmstadt Chopin Competition as well as chamber music prize. She has been 'Audience's favorite' as she received more than 3 audience prizes in different competitions including Liszt Utrecht, Premio Jaen, Lyon.
With her immense repertoire and musical sense, Yeon-Min Park has collaborated with great musicians such as Daniel Müller-Schott, Chad Hoopes, Nils Moenkemeyer, Romain Garioud, Hana Chang and with various orchestras such as Südwestdeutscher Philharmonie Konstanz, Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Wernigerode, Russian Chamber Philharmonic St.Petersburg, Korean Symphony, Hanoi Philharmonic, Shenzhen Symphony, Busan Philharmonic, Bucheon Philharmonic, Malaga Philharmonic, KT Symphony, Gauteng Philharmonic, Suzhou Symphony, Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion and many more.
Born in Mokpo, South Korea, Yeon-Min Park earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Seoul National University under the tutelage of Prof. Aviram Reichert and completed her Master degree and Konzertexamen at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover in the class of Prof. Bernd Goetzke.