Award-winning Korean cellist Soyoon Park performs nationwide as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, she began studying the cello and the Suzuki method at the age of six.

As a dedicated educator, Park serves on the cello faculty at the Peabody Preparatory. Prior to this, she was on the cello faculty at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (UC-CCM) Preparatory Department and served as a faculty member at the UC-CCM Suzuki and Traditional Strings Camp in 2022. She has also performed as a member of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra.

Park has been recognized in numerous competitions, winning awards such as the Three Arts Scholarship Fund Competition, the East Central MTNA Young Artist Competition, and the DoubleStop Foundation Competition. She also received both First and Second Prizes at the UC-CCM Chamber Music Competition in 2017, as well as the Epperson Award and the Vaughn Hedrick Award from UC-CCM and the Olga von Hartz Memorial Award from the Peabody Institute.

She has participated in prestigious summer festivals, including the Music Academy of the West, Spoleto Festival USA, Texas Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, and Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. She spends her summers performing at the Bellingham Festival of Music in Bellingham, WA, and The Hamptons Music Festival in East Hampton, NY. At the Music Academy of the West, she performed in concert with world-renowned artists Martin Beaver and Richard O’Neill. In 2013, Park collaborated with her former teacher Hans Jørgen Jensen and other esteemed cellists for a recording project presented by the Northwestern University Cello Ensemble. As a result, she was featured on the albums The Wind in High Places by John Luther Adams released under the Cold Blue Music label in 2015, and Shadow, Echo, Memory which was released under the Sono Luminus label in 2016.

As an orchestral musician, Park is a substitute cellist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the Washington Chamber Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra. During her studies at the Peabody Institute, she served as principal cellist of the Peabody Symphony and Chamber Orchestras.

Park’s formative years included being selected to join The Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago, an elite and highly selective pre-college conservatory training program nationally recognized for developing exceptional young musicians.

She earned her Master of Music degree in cello performance and cello pedagogy with an Artistic Excellence Award from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University under the tutelage of Alan Stepansky. She received her Bachelor of Music degree cum laude from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Alan Rafferty. Park is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.