SANG JOON PARK
FLUTIST

Flutist Sang Joon Park is the recipient of the prestigious 2005 Samuel Baron Prize awarded at the SUNY Stony Brook University where he earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree under the tutelage of Carol Wincenc (May 2004). He received his Bachelor of Music from Mannes College under Judith Mendenhall and Thomas Nyfenger and Master of Music form Manhattan School of Music under Linda Chesis. Park is a winner of numerous competitions and awards including Artists International Competition (New York Debut, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall), Downeast Orchestra Competition, LaGuardia Orchestra Competition, Westchester symphony Competition, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Young Winners Series, Ira Gershwin, Louis Hammershlag, and Lewis Silver Awards. He served as principal flutist for the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan symphony, Downeast chamber Orchestra, Mannes Symphony, Korean Chamber Sinfonia, Manhattan Philharmonia, Korean Symphony of New York, Orchestra Musicanti of seoul, and Amato Opera Orchestra.

Sang Joon Park's interest in baroque flute and baroque performance practice began wile pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at stony Brook, where he was a member of its Baroque Ensemble (Arthur Haas, director). He studied baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet, Sandra Miller, Janet See, Stephen Schultz and Jed Wentz, has attended Amherst Early Music Festival, Longy Baroque Institute, and Vancouver Early Music Programme. Park has performed with many Baroque groups such as Inégale, Rossignol Amoureux, Ensemble La Sylva, Newton Baroque, Flying Forms, La Donna Musicale, Catacoustic Consort, Bacchanalia Baroque, and The Grand Tour Orchestra throughout the United States, Canada, Taiwan and the Netherlands.

Having great interest in the 18th Century Spanish Instrumental Music, Park takes frequent trips to Spain for the research of original music manuscript collections. He is an official researcher at the Patrimonio Nacional Archivo y Biblioteca de Palacio Real de Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Biblioteca Histórica Municipal de Madrid, Biblioteca Musical Municipal de Madrid, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio San Lorenzo de El Escorial, and is also a member of the Royal Library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) at the Hague, Netherlands. In the United States, Park researches at the Spencer Collection Research Libraries [NYPL], the Research Library of Lincoln Center Library for the Performing arts, and the New York Hispanic Society Library.