Tim Park
- Cello
Cellist Tim Park has been praised for his energetic and exhilarating performances as well as for his expressive and beautiful sound. Enjoying a multifaceted career, performances as concert soloist, orchestral and chamber musician has brought Tim to concert halls and stages in over 20 countries.
Tim has performed with the New York Chamber Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, Berliner Symphoniker, Tel-Aviv Camerata, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, as well as orchestras in Korea including the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra, Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra and the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2013, Tim was awarded the Grand Prize of the Washington Award S&R Foundation.
Born to Korean parents, Tim Park began music studies at the age of eight. At the age of eleven he entered the Juilliard School of Music in New York. During his studies he won first prizes at national and international competitions which subsequently led to his concerto debut with the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra at the age of thirteen and his New York recital debut a year later.
He later pursued medicine and music studies at Yale University. At the invitation of cellist David Geringas, Tim moved to Germany and completed his degrees at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ in Berlin, Germany.
Tim Park performs on a cello made by Gennaro Gagliano of Naples built in 1740.