Violinist Grace Park has performed as soloist and chamber musician at some of the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Disney Concert Hall and Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, The Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, Dvorak Hall in Prague, and Glinka Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2008 she toured Italy performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5 with the Napoli Chamber Orchestra. In 2012, Ms. Park was in residence at Carnegie Hall as part of The Academy Carnegie Juilliard Weill program, performing with the ACJW Ensemble in New York City’s top venues. Her diverse career has carried her from renowned concert halls to inner city schools as a performer, coach, and multi-disciplinary educator. A devoted chamber musician, she has performed with a variety of ensembles around the world and has led chamber orchestras from the principal chair.
Ms. Park has also collaborated with numerous distinguished musicians. She has given performances at esteemed festivals such as the Yellow Barn Music Festival, Music@Menlo, the Perlman Music Program, the Innsbrook Institute, and the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, England. While pursuing her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the New England Conservatory, Grace studied with Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried. At NEC, she achieved the unprecedented honor of sweeping both of the school’s concerto competitions in the same year. Ms. Park has received support from a variety of institutions and foundations including The Colburn Foundation, Mandell Collection, Leni Fe Bland Foundation, Young Musician’s Debut Foundation, and Dorothy Starling Foundation.
Grace loves going to Chelsea piers to go ice skating; she also enjoys taking Polaroids - “it’s nice to have something you can hold on to.”
