ROBIN PARK

cello

Robin Park is a cellist from Fort Lee, NJ. He is pursuing dual careers in music and premodern Asian history. Robin studied at Princeton University and currently attends Yale School of Music. He has won several competitions as a soloist, performed with renowned orchestras, and is a YoungArts alumnus. Robin is also passionate about chamber music, serving as Music Director of Opus Chamber Music Princeton. In his free time, he enjoys playing chess, learning languages, and arranging music for cello ensemble and string quartet.

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 studied at Princeton University, with a B.A. in History. He currently studies at Yale School of Music.

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.

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. 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. 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.