Tomoki Park
KOREA
June 28th
PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988
Korean pianist Tomoki Park was born in Yokohama, Japan. Praised by Sir András Schiff as “a brilliant mind, intellectual in the best sense but full of emotions,” he has been noted as a “standout” (Boston Globe) and “among the highlights… and played sensitively” (The New York Times).
Key collaborations include Adolf Busch’s two-piano works with his late teacher Peter Serkin at the Marlboro Music Festival, and the music of György Kurtág with his mentor András Schiff, which they will perform again next season at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal. His concerto appearances span repertoire from Bach to Takemitsu, as do his solo recital programs, recently presented at the Elbphilharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, and Gstaad Menuhin Festival. He has premiered over 50 works; composers including Katherine Balch, Dai Fujikura, and Michael Cohen-Weissert have recently written for him.
He began his musical education in England, studying piano with Tessa Nicholson at the Purcell School, while also pursuing composition. He later studied with Pascal Devoyon at the Universität der Künste Berlin, with Peter Serkin at the Bard College Conservatory of Music in New York, and at the Lake Como Piano Academy, where he took masterclasses from WIlliam Grant Naboré. He was a member of the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt.
A long-running project is a commissioned biography of Peter Serkin, funded in part by The Amphion Foundation, Inc. He is currently based in Berlin.
