Heng-Jin Park, founder and Artistic Director of Halcyon Music Festival, has been Hailed by the Washington Post as “a pianist of unusual artistry and musical imagination”. She is acclaimed for her versatility as a soloist, chamber musician, pedagogue, and music director. Born in Korea and raised in the Boston area, Ms. Park studied with Leonard Shure and Russell Sherman at the New England Conservatory. She also worked with Marie-Françoise Bucquet at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
Ms. Park started playing the piano at age 5, and made her solo debut with the Boston Pops at age 15 in Symphony Hall. She has also appeared as soloist with A Far Cry, L'Orchestre Symphonique Française, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, and many others.
As a recitalist, she has performed in Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Library of Congress, the Gardner Museum, Jordan Hall, as well as concerts in Switzerland, France, Korea, and Canada.
Ms. Park is also a founding member and the pianist of the celebrated Boston Trio and has performed at some of the most prestigious venues internationally with this ensemble. She has collaborated with numerous world class musicians in her long career as a renowned chamber musician. Ms. Park has performed at many prestigious music festivals including Maui Classical Music Festival, Taos School of Music, Sanibel Music Festival, Banff, Ernen Music Festival, Newport Classical Music Festival, Rockport Chamber Music Festival.
Committed to training the next generation of musicians, Ms. Park enjoys an international reputation as a respected pedagogue of both piano and chamber music. She was the artistic director of the Killington Music Festival in Vermont, and served on the faculty of Tanglewood Music Center and Yellow Barn Music Festival.
She is an Affiliated Artist at MIT’s Music and Theatre Department.
