Thursday March 23, 7pm
Concert presentation by Per Tengstrand at 7pm, music starts at 7.30pm
Tickets HERE
Robin Park, cello
Per Tengstrand, piano
An evening with some of the best music written for cello and piano: Three movements from Bach’s famous sixth solo suite (composed for a cello with an extra string, but of course, Robin Park will have to use only four), Tchaikovsky’s wonderful Romance for piano solo, Beethoven’s incredibly exciting sonata in A-major for cello and piano and after intermission Brahm’s hyper romantic sonata in e-minor for cello and piano will be served.
PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian Bach:
From Suite for solo cello in D-major BWV 1012
Prelude – Allemande – Courante
Pyotr Tchaikovsky:
Romance for piano solo op. 5
Ludwig van Beethoven:
From Sonata for cello and piano in A-Major op. 69
Adagio cantabile – Allegro vivace
Johannes Brahms
Sonata for cello and piano in e-minor op. 69
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Allegretto quasi menuetto
III. Allegro
Robin Park (b. 2001) is a cellist hailing from the city of Fort Lee, NJ. An aspiring musician-academic, Robin aims to pursue careers in both the fields of music and premodern Asian history. Following this path, Robin currently studies at Princeton University, where he will be graduating in May of 2023 with a B.A. in History, and concurrently studies cello with Richard Aaron, Professor of Cello at the Juilliard School.
Throughout his career as a cellist, Robin has been an avid soloist, most recently winning First Prize in the 5 th annual Gustav Mahler Cello Competition and the 2023 Princeton University Concerto Competition. In the year 2018 alone, Robin won Grand Prizes in the Caprio Competition, Sinfonietta Nova Competition, and the Newtown Chamber Orchestra Competition, through which he performed as a soloist with the Riverside Symphonia, Sinfonietta Nova, and the Newtown Chamber Orchestra, respectively. Robin will be performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in April with the Princeton University Orchestra as a winner
of the Princeton University Concerto Competition. Robin is also a YoungArts alumnus, having received National YoungArts Award in 2017 and 2018, upon which he accordingly participated in the YoungArts New York Regional Program in 2018.
Robin has also equally been active as an orchestral musician, achieving leadership positions in numerous orchestras over the years. In past years, Robin has held the position of Principal Cellist of the 2022 Pacific Music Festival Orchestra and the 2019 National Youth Orchestra. Robin is currently the Associate Principal Cellist of Symphony in C, the premier professional training orchestra of the Mid-Atlantic, and is a two-time alumnus of the 2017 and 2019 seasons prestigious New York String Orchestra Seminar, of which he was the youngest participant in 2017.
As an avid chamber musician, Robin has passionately expanded his chamber repertoire as Music Director of Opus Chamber Music Princeton, Princeton University’s premier chamber music collective, throughout most of his undergraduate years. Robin is also a frequent performer on Swedish pianist Per Tengstrand’s concert series, Music on Park Avenue, as well as on Symphony in C’s Virtuosi Series, and is also a performing artist for the Suburban Music Studies Club. From an early age, Robin was able to develop his love for chamber music by attending the Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s String Quartet Workshop in 2015 and 2016 and participating in the Dali Quartet Music Festival’s Fellowship program in 2017, where he first realized his love for teaching young musicians. Since then, even in orchestral programs such as the National Youth Orchestra, New York String Orchestra Seminar, and the Pacific Music Festival, Robin has made it his priority to play and, if possible, perform chamber music with his
fellow colleagues. In fact, during his time at the Pacific Music Festival, he enjoyed the opportunity to play in a quartet with Heinrich Koll, former Principal Violist of the Vienna Philharmonic, with whom he performed three different concerts in venues throughout Hokkaido, Japan.
During his undergraduate years at Princeton, Robin studied cello with Richard Aaron. In the past, he has studied with Leo Singer, Priscilla Lee, Clara Minhye Kim, Thomas Kraines, and Yumi Kendall; he has also studied the Baroque Cello and Viola da Gamba under the tutelage of Sarah Cunningham. Robin has also participated in masterclasses held by Marcy Rosen, Peter Stumpf, Steven Doane, the Dover Quartet, and the Muir Quartet.
Robin currently plays on an 1820 Thomas Kennedy Cello from England, along with a 2022 Morgan Andersen bow. When he is not researching topics Eurasian history or practicing the cello, Robin enjoys playing janggi (i.e. Korean chess), learning languages, and arranging songs and movie soundtracks for cello ensemble and string quartet.
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