Conert Two: Sunday February 5, 2012 6:00pm In Soo Park & Friends Benefit Concert Promise Church (Full Gospel NY Church) 130-30 31st Street Flushing, NY 11354 http://www.usaamen.net/news/board.php?board=adad&command=body&no=1988 Concert Three: Saturday February 11, 2012 7:30pm In Soo Park & Music Friends Bucks county Presbyterian Church 1550 Woodbourne Rd. Levitttown, PA 19057 215) 935-5000 Rachel Lee
I am excited and proud to invite you to three upcoming concerts of distinguished Korean tenor In Soo Park, my father. The first concert will take place on Thursday February 2nd (7:30pm) at Merkin Concert Hall, a joint concert featuring In Soo Park & Friends and a rising Korean-American violinist Rachel Lee, presented by Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York (see ticket information below). The second concert will be on Sunday February 5th (6:00pm) at Promise Church (Full Gospel NY Church) in Flushing, New York, a full In Soo Park & Friends concert, presented by The Council of Korean Churches of Greater New York, and The Korean-American Clergy Association of Greater New York. The third concert will be on Saturday February 11th (7:30pm) at Bucks County Presbyterian Church in Levitttown, Pennsylvania. All concerts will showcase brilliant young Korean opera singers including tenors Sung Joon Kim, Dong Won Shin, InJoon Yang, Gil Ung Yun, Seungwon Wang, and baritone Seongyong Oh, with flutist Sang Joon Park, pianist Eunmi Moon (New York concerts), and pianist Yoonhak Baek (Pennsylvania concert).
Artistic director of AVLA HARMONIÆ; Recipient of 2005 Samuel Baron Prize; Doctor of Musical Arts, SUNY Stony Brook University; Master of Music, Manhattan School of Music; Bachelor of Music, Mannes College; Flute studies with Carol Wincenc, Linda Chesis, Judith Mendenhall, Thomas Nyfenger; Baroque flute studies with Wilbert Hazelzet, Sandra Miller, Janet See, Stephen Schultz, Jed Wentz; Participated in the Amherst Early Music Festival, Longy International Baroque Institute, Vancouver Early Music Programme, Bunnik Traverso Workshop; Performances with Inégale, Rossignol Amoureux, Ensemble La Sylva, Newton Baroque, Flying Forms, La Donna Musicale, Catacoustic Consort, Bacchanalia Baroque, Empire Viols, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Concert Royal, and The Grand Tour Orchestra; Harpsichord studies with Louis Bagger, composition with Giampaolo Bracali, conducting with David Gilbert; Conducting debut at the New York’s Amato Opera in its final 2009 season with Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro.
Winner of 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; Principal flute with Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan Symphony, Downeast Chamber Orchestra, Mannes Symphony, Korean Chamber Sinfonia, Korean Symphony of New York, Orchestra Musicanti of Seoul, and the Amato Opera Orchestra.
Official researcher at the Patrimonio Nacional Archivo y Biblioteca de Palacio Real de Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Biblioteca Histórica Municipal de Madrid, Biblioteca Musical Municipal de Madrid, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Royal Library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) at the Hague, Spencer Collection Research Libraries [NYPL], Research Library of Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, and the New York Hispanic Society Library.