Hayang Park

Born in Seoul in 1998, Hayang Park started playing the viola at an early age and has established herself as an accomplished musician with numerous competition wins, including 2022 the 5^th Tokyo Competition, where she recently won first prize.

At the age of 13, Park attended the Yewon School of Arts and later went on to complete her university studies at Yonsei University in South Korea, under the Professor Sang-Jin Kim, and received a bachelor's degree in 2019. From 2018 to 2021, she studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, under the guidance of renowned violist Nobuko Imai, supported by a scholarship from the Fundación Albeniz. Park has also had the opportunity to attend masterclasses with some of the leading violists in the world, including Lawrence Power, Tabea Zimmermann, Christoph Poppen, and Antoine Tamestit. With her outstanding musicianship and training, Park has already established herself as a rising star in the classical music scene. 

Even in her early years, Hayang Park won a variety of national and international prizes. At twelve years old she won the Concours International de musique et d'art dramatique Léopold Bellan. In 2017 she took third prize in the string section of the 15th Tokyo Music Competition, and performed Hindemith’s viola concerto “Der Schwanendreher” together with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also won numerous prizes in her native Korea, including the Chun-chu Music Competition and the Seoul National Philharmonic Competition.

Park’s concert biography already includes performances at Geneva’s Victoria Hall, Fondation Louis Vuitton and the Matsumoto Harmony Hall in Japan together with Maestro Seiji Ozawa. She has performed at many international music festivals, including the Marlboro Music Festival in the United States, the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Seoul International Music Festival, the Kronberg Chamber Music Connects the World Festival, the Kronberg Academy Festival and TongYeong International Muisc Festival. She also performed chamber music with cellist Steven Isserlis, Gary Hoffman, violinist Leonidas Kavakos, Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithass, Kolija Blacher and Dong Suk Kang, violist Nobuko Imai, among others.

Most recently, she performed with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra and joined the 2023 'Musicians from Marlboro' North America tour, which took place in major cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Boston.

Since October 2021, Hayang has been studying at Kronberg Academy with Nobuko Imai, funded by the Ulla Minners/Lore Buscher patronage. She is additionally supported by Jan Kleinewefers.