Yoo-Ran Eunice Park

Pianist

Hailing from South Korea, Pianist Dr. Yoo-Ran Eunice Park was one of the youngest students accepted to the Korea National University of Arts Pre-College Program at the age of 8. By the age 11, she made a debut at Sejong Arts Center performing Mozart Piano Concerto in C Minor, K. 491 with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra after winning the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra Competition by a unanimous vote. Since then, she won major piano competitions and gave numerous performances in Korea. For further education, She moved to the United States in early age and immediately appeared in public with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra in Michigan and she made her NYC debut in Carnegie Hall after winning American Protégé International Competition. Recent career highlights include the critically acclaimed performance of Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto in G Minor with the New York Symphony Orchestra in New York City. She also has performed with Indiana University Student Orchestra, Amadeo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jubilee Orchestra and Union City Orchestra. Dr. Park also had solo recitals throughout the United States including venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center as well as in Spain and Czech Republic. Her awards included first prize in American Protégé International Competition, second prize in New York Artist International Competition, first prize in the Music Journal Competition, the MTNA Piano Concerto Competition, and Lansing Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition among many.

Dr. Park received Bachelor and Master of Music with accelerated academic achievement and was a full scholarship recipient from The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University where she studied with Yong Hi Moon. She also received Doctor of Music from Indiana University Bloomington under tutelage of Prof. André Watts and Prof. Shigeo Neriki. Her dissertation, “Cyclic Elements in Schubert’s Last Three Piano Sonatas, D. 958, 959, and 960” was highly praised by the doctoral committee for her excellent analysis as well as performance. Her interview and performance of Schubert Piano Sonata D. 575 was broadcasted on NPR radio station, WJFF.

Since 2016, Dr. Park has been serving as an adjudicator of the New York International Artists Competition, the East Coast International Competition, the Manhattan International Music Competition and she received Raymond Lesniak New Jersey Senator’s Award in 2016 and Grace Meng U.S. Congress Award in 2017 for her excellence in the field of Music and Art in the New York region. From 2007 to 2012, Dr. Park served as an Associate Instructor in Piano at Indiana University Bloomington. Dr. Park’s pedagogical expertise has been proven through her students’ successes including first prizes in the New York International Music Concours, National Artists Competition, as well as Manhattan Pre-College and Music Educators Association of New Jersey Annual Piano Auditions.

Dr. Park is an artist of Leo Management in New York and a member of Music Educators Association of New Jersey and currently teaches in New Jersey and New York City.