Angela Park

Cellist Angela Park, the 2009-2011 National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist winner for strings, will present a free public performance at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 9 at the University of Arkansas at Monticello Fine Arts Center.

Born in Los Angeles in 1987, Park began playing the cello at age 10 in Seoul, South Korea, where she attended the Seoul International School before being accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

During her six years at Curtis, she served as second chair cellist in the symphony orchestra, principal cellist in the chamber orchestra, and performed in a Curtis ensemble in a two-week residency in Ischia, Italy.

In the summers, Park attended the Perlman Music Program and the Perlman Chamber Music Workshop in New York, the Piatigorsky Seminar at the University of Southern California, Ravinia Festival's Steans Institute in Chicago, New Mexico’s Music from Angel Fire, the inaugural season of the Great Mountains Music Festival in South Korea, and Verbier, Switzerland’s Festival Academy.

After receiving her bachelor of music degree at Curtis, she studied with Laurence Lesser at the New England Conservatory, culminating in a master of music degree in 2009. Park is currently a student of Jens Peter Maintz at the Universtat der Kunste of Berlin, where she resides.

For more information call the UAM Division of Music at (870) 460-1060.