| Background: | person |
| Mi-Young Park | |
| Native Name: | 박미영 |
| Native Name Lang: | ko |
| Birth Name: | Park Mi-Young |
| Birth Date: | 30 October 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Seoul, South Korea |
| Genre: | Classical music |
| Occupation: | Concert violinist, recitalist |
| Instrument: | Violin |
| Years Active: | 1958–2005 |
Mi-Young Park (born October 30, 1948, Seoul) is a Korean-American violinist. At age five, she beganstudying violin. She soloed with the Seoul Philharmonic and the Korean Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra after winning First Prize in the Korean National Music Competition. For almost fifty years she concertized with her sister, Pong-Hi, in a violin-piano duo known as The Park Sisters.[1] [2]
In 1955, she performed at the presidential palace for President Syngman Rhee and First Lady Franziska Donner in celebration of the president's 80th birthday. At age fourteen, Park was accepted by Efrem Zimbalist, director of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia,[3] [4]
Park taught as part of the faculty of the New School of Music in Philadelphia and Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.[5]
While attending Curtis and following her graduation, she played with Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and was frequently featured in 18th- and 19th-century violin concertos on the Orchestra's main concert series as well as on tour in the United States and abroad. A number of her performances were recorded live and archived.
At a relatively young age, Park limited the number of her performing engagements due to health issues. In 1986, she purchased a Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu dated 1722 (Cozio 49179[6])[7] that she played until her retirement in 2005.
Much of her career was dedicated to performing recitals with her sister, pianist Pong-Hi Park.[8] [9] While still in grade school, they began playing recitals together that continued for almost fifty years. They concertized as The Park Sisters,[10] performing a wide range of violin-piano repertoire[11] [12] first in South Korea and then in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
Park lives with her husband, conductor Marc Mostovoy, in New Jersey.[13]
With Chamber Orchestra:
With Pong-Hi Park (as the Park Sisters):
Sonata No. 8 in G Major for Piano and Violin, Op. 30, No. 3
La fille aux cheveux de lin [The girl with the flaxen hair]
Danse Espagnole [Spanish Dance] (arr. Kreisler)
Sonatina in G Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 100
Air for Violin and Piano
Melodie (arr. Kreisler)
Tambourin Chinois, Op. 3
Sonata Op. 9, No. 3 in D Major
On Wings of Song, Op. 34, No. 2
Sonata Op. 13 for Violin and Piano
Piece en forme de Habanera
Serenade (Ständchen)
Suite Italienne for Violin and Piano
Four Pieces Op. 17 for Violin and Piano
With Temple Painter (Harpsichord):
Violin sonata in A major (HWV 361)
