Angela Park, cello
Equally at home as a soloist and chamber musician Angela Park has performed throughout the North and South Americas, Europe, and East Asia. Notable appearances are solo concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic, and chamber music appearances at the Marlboro, Verbier, and Ravinia Festivals.
Born in 1987 in California to Korean parents, Angela started playing the cello at age 10 with Sungeun Hong and Kyungmi Lim. Performing from an early age soon thereafter, Angela won virtually every competition in Korea and made her debut with the Seoul Philharmonic at the age of 12. At 14, she started her studies at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music with Peter Wiley and the late Orlando Cole. While at Curtis, she made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach.
Upon graduation, Angela studied with Laurence Lesser at the New England Conservatory, and with Jens Peter Maintz at the Universität der Künste Berlin in the Konzertexamen Program, where she was a DAAD Scholar (German Academic Exchange), graduating with highest distinction in 2013. She has also studied baroque cello with Kristin von der Goltz and Daniel Rosin.
Her multifaceted performing career has led her to be a sought-after teacher, and she has taught at the Korean National Institute for the Gifted in Arts, the Curtis Young Artist Summer Program, and Festival de los Siete Lagos of Argentina. She is currently on the cello and chamber music faculty at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music in Pittsburgh.
Angela plays a Tirolean cello from the late 18th century.