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Soyoon Park is an award-winning Korean cellist and dedicated educator who brings her broad teaching experience to her current teaching roles at the Pre-College Division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she serves as an Early Childhood Music Instructor, and Crowden Music School. She also maintains an active private teaching studio in the Bay Area.
A Registered Suzuki Cello Teacher with the Suzuki Association of the Americas since 2019, Park previously served on the cello faculty at the Peabody Preparatory of the Johns Hopkins University and taught at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department.
In addition to her teaching, Park maintains an active performance career. She previously held a one-year section cello position with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and has won positions with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with ensembles including the Washington Chamber Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.
Her summer festival experience includes Spoleto Festival USA, Music Academy of the West, Texas Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. She spends her summers performing at the Bellingham Festival of Music and The Hamptons Festival of Music. At the Music Academy of the West, she performed chamber music with Martin Beaver and Richard Yongjae O’Neill.
Park has collaborated with distinguished cellists including her former teacher Hans Jørgen Jensen and is featured on the albums The Wind in High Places (Cold Blue Music, 2015) and Shadow, Echo, Memory (Sono Luminus, 2016).
She is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She holds a Master of Music degree in cello performance and cello pedagogy from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Alan Stepansky, and a Bachelor of Music degree cum laude from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Alan Rafferty.