Susie Park, violin
Hailed as “prodigiously talented” (Washington Post) and praised for her “freedom, mastery, and fantasy” (La Libre, Belgium), Australian violinist Susie Park has established a reputation as an artist who combines expansive emotive range and dynamic stage presence. As violinist of the Eroica Trio from 2006 to 2012, she performed throughout the US, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, and New Zealand, and released a Grammy-nominated album on EMI Classics. As soloist, she has performed with the Vienna Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and Indianapolis symphonies, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Korea’s KBS Symphony Orchestra, Lille National Orchestra, New Zealand’s Wellington Sinfonia, and the major Australian orchestras. Ms. Park has appeared in venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 92nd Street Y, Kimmel Center, Smithsonian Institution, Musikverein, Cologne Philharmonie, Düsseldorf Tonhalle, and the Sydney Opera House. A laureate of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, and top prizewinner in the Menuhin and Wieniawski International competitions, Ms. Park is also an avid chamber musician having attended the Marlboro Music Festival and toured the US with Musicians from Marlboro. Other festival appearances include Music from Angel Fire, Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove, UK, and the Seattle, Aspen, Caramoor, Portland, Maui, Skaneateles, Bermuda, and Ravinia festivals. Ms. Park is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory. Her teachers have included Jaime Laredo, Ida Kavafian, Donald Weilerstein, and Miriam Fried. A former member of Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society Two, she is a founding member of ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra). Ms. Park was first violinist of the Enso String Quartet in their final season in 2018. She enjoys performing as a guest with the Twin Cities esteemed chamber ensemble, Accordo. Ms. Park is First Associate Concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra, and has appeared as guest concertmaster of the Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Indianapolis symphony orchestras as well as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.