Kyumin Park

B. 1996, Republic of Korea

Kyumin Park first studied at the renowned New England Conservatory of Music. He is currently deepening his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. His teachers include Antje Weithaas and Donald Weilerstein. Park has taken part in masterclasses with Miriam Fried, Pamela Frank and Robert Levin, among others.

He has been awarded numerous prizes, including second prize at the 2019 Max Rostal International Music Competition and second prize at the 2018 International Music Competition Harbin, China.

Kyumin Park is part of the Kallaci String Quartet. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and the NEC Philharmonia in Boston and has given recitals in prestigious concert halls such as the Konzerthaus Berlin. He plays a Dominicus Montagnana violin from 1740, which has been given to him by the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation.

Repertoire

PRELIMINARY ROUND 1
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003

Eugène Ysaÿe
Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor ‘Ballade`, Op. 27

PRELIMINARY ROUND 2
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23

Maurice Ravel
Tzigane (1924)

SEMIFINAL ROUND 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219, movement 1 & 2

Béla Bartók
Divertimento, Sz 113 - 3. Allegro assai

SEMIFINAL ROUND 2
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet movement

Isang Yun
‘Königliches Thema’ for Solo Violin

Ernest Chausson
Poème, Op. 25

Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94b

FINAL ROUND
Enno Poppe
Feder (WP)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61