Interview with Timothy Park

Park, Timothy

Interviewee: Park, Timothy

Year of Production: 2016

Playing Time: 00:06:39

Catalogue Number: DAK069-05

Born in New York to Korean parents, solo cellist Timothy Park studied at The Juilliard School with Jerome Carrington and Fred Sherry and at the Yale University with Aldo Parisot, later moving to Germany to obtain his Master Diploma and Konzertexam from the Musikhochschule Lubeck and the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, where he was a pupil of David Geringas and also worked with Josef Feigelson, Boris Pergamenschikow and Daniel Barenboim.

As a soloist, Mr. Park has performed with ensembles such as the Chamber Orchestra of New York, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra and the Interlochen Center for the Arts Academy Orchestra. He is regularly invited to participate in the Lucerne Festival, Aspen Music Festival and School, Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, NDR Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Kronberg Academy, the Jerusalem Festival and the festival Pablo Casals in Prades.

An avid chamber musician, Timothy Park is the cellist of the Erlenbusch string quartet, keeping an artistic collaboration with the Staatskapelle Berlin and playing with musicians such as Elena Bashkirova, Levon Chilingirian, Alessio Bax, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Zakhar Bron, Frans Helmerson, Gary Hoffman, Tamaki Kawakubo, Nikolaj Znaider, Michael Barenboim, Emmanuel Pahud and Bruno Schneider.

Mr. Park also dedicates his time to various educational and charitable programs in Korea, Japan, Venezuela and the US. He plays a cello made by the Naples master Gennaro Gagliano in 1740.