Tomoki Park, Piano
Korean pianist Tomoki Park was born in Yokohama, Japan, and moved to the United Kingdom at age 11 to study at the Purcell School. He is a graduate of Berlin University of Arts (UdK) and Bard College Conservatory of Music in New York. The top prize winner of the 14th Young Artists’ Piano Competition in Tokyo and laureate of the 10th International Competition in Ettlingen, Tomoki has performed worldwide as a soloist and chamber player, including Wigmore Hall and South Bank Center (London), Suntory Hall and Opera City (Tokyo), Lincoln Center and Merkin Hall (New York). Recent engagements include performances at the Pierre Boulez Retrospective (Geneva), a Mozart recital at the Mozarteum (Salzburg), and Bach and Takemitsu Double Piano Concertos with Peter Serkin and the Sacramento Philharmonic. Festival appearances include Marlboro Music, Klangspuren in the Austrian Tyrol and Tanglewood Music Center. He was noted by the ›New York Times‹ for his rendition of Oliver Knussen’s piano music at Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music as »performed sensitively... and one of the highlights of the program.« Last season, he co-directed New York’s Andrew Park Foundation Composition Award that commissioned new pieces inspired by the Korean resistance poet Yi Yuksa. Tomoki Park studied piano with Peter Serkin, Tessa Nicholson, Pascal Devoyon and Rikako Murata, and composition with Dai Fujikura, Haris Kittos and Jonathan Cole. In October 2019, he will be joining the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt while teaching at Bard College Berlin.