Pianist Rosa Soonjae Park received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music
degrees from The Juilliard School, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the
State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Dr. Park is an active collaborative pianist in the Tri-State area and is a staff
pianist at the Mannes School of Music.
Additionally, Dr. Park is the Founder and Chair of International Grande Music
Competition and Bellagrande International Music Competition since 2015.
Dr. Park started piano studies at age five in Seoul, Korea. At the age of eight,
she made her first orchestral appearance with the Seoul Philharmonic
Orchestra.
She has been a soloist with many orchestras including the St. Petersburg State
Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Merida Philharmonic Orchestra of Venezuela,
Cluj-Napoca State Philharmonic of Romania, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra of
Yugoslavia, Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra of New York, Nutley Symphony
Orchestra of New Jersey, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Busan Philharmonic
Orchestra, and Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra of Korea.
Dr. Park has performed numerous concerts in major venues including Carnegie
Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, Aula Magna de la ULA, Casa Universitarilor, Seoul Arts Center, and Sejong Center for the
Performing Arts, among others.
Dr. Park was the recipient of the J & R Lhevinne Scholarship at The Juilliard
School. She was also awarded first prize in the New York Music Teachers’
Association Competition, the Kingsville International Young Performers’
Competition, the San Angelo Symphony Competition, the Nutley Symphony
Young Artists Competition, the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra Concerto
Competition, and the New Orleans International Piano Competition, among
others.
Dr. Park studied under Professors Josef Raieff and Martin Canin at Juilliard. Dr.
Park was a former piano and chamber music faculty at the Diller-Quaile School
of Music, Third Street Music School Settlement, New York Music School, and
Point CounterPoint Music Festival. Her former piano students included Lady
Gaga.