Participant
Audrey Park
Violin
Accepted to the preliminary round of the 2026 Naumburg International Violin Competition.
Biography supplied for the 2026 competition.
Violinist Audrey Park is currently studying at the Manhattan School of Music with Lucie Robert on a full scholarship. Praised for her “peak of virtuosity, emotional depth, and elegant phrasing” (Amadeus Festival), she previously earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Hyo Kang, Frank Huang, and Cho-Liang Lin.
As a soloist, Audrey has performed with orchestras including the Harbin Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra, Peninsula Symphony, and others. She has won top prizes in numerous competitions, including the Schoenfeld International Violin Competition, first place at the Violins and Soul Salon Music Competition, Chicago International Violin Competition, Ronald Sachs International Competition, Bellagrande International Music Competition, and the Edith Knox Performance Competition. She was a finalist at the ArsClassica International Competition, a semi-finalist at major international competitions such as the Indianapolis, Stuttgart, and Lipinski competitions, and was invited to the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition.
Audrey is a recipient of the Mark Zinger Foundation scholarship. She currently performs on a 1709 Antonio Stradivarius, generously on loan from the Goh Family Collection.
Pianists
2026 International Violin Competition
Jun Cho
, piano
Pianist Jun Cho combines solo performance, chamber music, and teaching. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Benaroya Hall, and Seoul Arts Center, and his collaborators include Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Stefan Jackiw, Ray Chen, and Randall Goosby. His work also extends to tango through performances with the Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet. In 2024, he participated in the world premiere of Augusta Read Thomas’s Haemosu’s Celestial Chariot Ride with Sejong Soloists at Zankel Hall.
Cho is assistant professor of piano and coordinator of the keyboard area at Syracuse University. He also teaches at the Perlman Music Program and serves as Itzhak Perlman’s studio pianist at Juilliard. A founding member of New York in Chuncheon, he has helped develop a South Korean festival that connects New York musicians with local audiences and students through concerts, masterclasses, and mentorship.
He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Juilliard and a doctorate at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. His teachers include Julian Martin and Jon Kimura Parker.