Susie Park
Susie Park
Hailed as “prodigiously talented” (Washington Post) and praised for her “freedom, mastery and fantasy” (La Libre, Belgium), Susie Park is gaining worldwide recognition for her emotive range and dynamic stage presence. Concertizing around the world she has appeared as soloist with the Orchestra of St. Lukes, San Francisco Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, Memphis Symphony, all of the major Australian orchestras, Korea’s KBS orchestra, the Lille National Orchestra under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin and the Wellington Sinfonia, New Zealand. Her collaborations include the Guarneri, Juilliard, Emerson and Cleveland quartets, Kim Kashkashian and Jaime Laredo with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Alice Tully Hall, New York. She has given recitals in Jordan Hall and the Gardner Museum in Boston, a live radio recital for WGBH Boston and has appeared in venues including Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 92nd St. Y in New York, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Centre and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. A native of Sydney, Australia, she began playing violin at age three, giving her first performance at five. She has won top prizes in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Menuhin International Competition and Wieniawski International Competition. An avid chamber musician, she was the violinist of the Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio who released an all-American album with EMI Classics in 2008. She held a professional residency at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two.