Sueye Park, First Prize Winner of the XIII International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, Helsinki 2025.

Born in South Korea in 2000, Sueye Park’s exceptional musical talent was
recognized at an early age. At just nine years old, she began her studies with Ulf Wallin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin.

Equally devoted to solo and chamber music, Sueye Park has appeared with
leading orchestras including the Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the
Staatskapelle Weimar, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Radio
Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

 

Her performances have taken her to major festivals and concert halls throughout Europe, Israel, Asia, and South America.

She has collaborated with distinguished musicians and conductors such as
Adrian Brendel, Ning Feng, Ralf Gothóni, Gary Hoffman, Pietari Inkinen, Yoel
Levi, Tatjana Masurenko, Roland Pöntinen, Anna Rakitina, Dima Slobodeniouk, and Osmo Vänskä.

Sueye Park has participated in numerous international radio and television
broadcasts. She made her debut on disc in 2017 with Paganini Caprices
(BIS-2282). In 2021 she released the solo recital Journey through a Century
(BIS-2492), which was selected as Gramophone Recording of the month. This was followed by Isang Yun’s Violin Concerto No. 3 with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä (BIS-2642), and the complete works for violin and piano by Karol Szymanowski, recorded with pianist Roland Pöntinen (BIS-2652, 2022/23). Her most recent release, Echoes of Exile (BIS-2332), is dedicated to works by composers forced to leave their homelands.

She has received valuable artistic impulses from Shmuel Ashkenasi, Saschko
Gawriloff, Ivry Gitlis, Vadim Gluzman, Ida Haendel, Nobuko Imai, and Donald
Weilerstein, and she has participated in masterclasses at institutions such as
the Seiji Ozawa International Academy (Switzerland), Kronberg Academy
(Germany), and the Keshet Eilon International String Masterclass (Israel).

Sueye Park plays a 1777 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin, the “ex Sasson,”
generously loaned by the Beare’s International Violin Society.