Esther Park

Pianist Esther Park has performed as a soloist with orchestras and in recitals across the United States as well as in Korea, China, Canada, Russia, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Italy and Israel. Ms. Park has appeared as soloist with many orchestras such as Corpus Christi Symphony, Filharmonia Pomorska, Poland, Orchestra Filarmonica, Romania, Shanghai Philharmonic, China, the American Academy of Conducting Orchestra at Aspen, Shreveport Symphony, the Juilliard Symphony, and the New Jersey Symphony.

Ms. Park gave a five-city recital tour in Korea, and has performed at the Juilliard Theater in NYC, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Halls’ Weill Recital Hall, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and on the Kum-Ho Music society’s Prodigy Series. She has appeared at the Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara), the Aspen Music Festival, the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in Maine, the Tel-Hai International Music Festival in Israel, and the Van Cliburn-TCU Institute in Texas. Ms. Park has been heard in New York on WQXR Radio station as the winner of the 52nd Kosciusko International Competition and the Gina Bachauer Competition.

Ms. Park is the winner of the 2004 Gina Bachauer Piano Competition at the Juilliard School. She is the winner of the Juilliard concerto competition, the 52nd Kosciusko International Piano Competition, New Jersey Young Artists Audition, the Van Cliburn-TCU Institute Young Artist Competition, Corpus Christi International Competition, top prizes at the 3rd China Shanghai International Piano Competition, 6th Paderewski International Piano Competition, the National Chopin Competition, Hilton Head International Competition, the 14th New Orleans International Piano Competition, and is the recipient of the President Clinton’s Prodigy Award.

Born in Pusan, Korea in 1984, Ms. Park began to play in public soon after her first piano lessons at the age of four. Ms. Park moved to the United States in 1995, after being accepted to the Juilliard School’s Pre-College division. Ms. Park has since received her Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree from the Juilliard School, studying with Yoheved Kaplinsky. She has performed in master classes of Arie Vardi, Richard Goode, Leon Fleisher, Jerome Lowenthal, Joseph Kalichstein, Andrew Litton, Joachin Achuccaro, and Karl Ulrich Schnabel.