Biography
Sunghyun Park was born in 2006 in the USA. She began playing the cello at the age of five at the JCC Thurnauer School of Music in New York, USA. Since moving to Korea at the age of seven, she has studied with Prof. Kim Tae Woo. In 2019, she entered the Yewon School in Korea and shortly thereafter she won the audition for the Pre-College of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. In October 2019, she started her studies there in the class of Prof. Troels Svane.
Shunghyun attended master classes with Kirill Rodin, Dr. Suren Bagratuni, Tilmann Wick, Richard Aron, Alban Gerhardt, Marcy Rosen, Laurence Lesser, Myung-Wha Chung, Lluis Claret, Hans Jörgen Jensen, Troels Swane, Grüner Schmied, Wolf Emanuel Schmidt, Wen-Sinn Yang and Thomas Grossenbacher. She is also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and takes part in the intensive weeks and activities of the academy.
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Shunghyun has been the 1st prize winner in several famous competitions in Korea such as "Strad", "Eumyoun Music Competition", "Eumak Choonchu" and she notably won the grand prize of all participants in all age categories at the "17thNational Music Competition". In 2016, she was a prize winner at the international competition "Golden Classical Music Awards New York" and was invited to the winner's concert in Carnegie Hall. In 2017, she was semifinalist in the "24thInternational Johannes Brahms Competition". In 2018, she was a prize winner at the "Greenhouse Cello Festival Award Auditions" and in 2021, she took part in the semi-finals of the "International Jeunesses Musicales Competition" in Belgrade.
Shunghyun has performed at various festivals and academies at home and abroad, including the Pyeongchang Music Festival & School in Korea, the Ettal International Summer Academy in Germany, Musique à Flaine in France, the Rutesheim Cello Academy, the 10th Summer Academy of Music in Uelzen and at the Swiss International Music Academy. She has performed with the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester and the Wratislavia Chamber Orchestra, among others.