Chase Park

Biography supplied for the 2024 competition.

Cellist CHASE PARK, winner of the 2021 Julliard Cello competition, is a multifaceted performer who enjoys collaborating in a variety of traditional and avant-garde settings. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated and performed with esteemed artists such as Mitsuko Uchido, Jonathan Biss, Scott St. John, Samuel Rhodes, Hsin-Yun Huang, Anthony McGill, Carmit Zori, Atar Arad, Meng Chieh Liu, Benjamin Schmid, Pamela Frank, and Itzhak Perlman.

In 2019 performances with Curtis on Tour brought him to international stages in Athens, Paris, Kempten, Teulada, and Berlin, launching his international reputation. In 2021 he made his Alice Tully Hall debut performing the Haydn Cello Concerto in D major with the Juillard Chamber Orchestra. His love for chamber music has resulted in fellowships at the Perlman Music Program (“Littles”) and Chamber Music Workshop, Ravinia Steans Institute, the Marlboro Music Festival, and Caramoor Evening Rising Stars mentoring Program. He is a member of Sejong Soloists, which brought him to Asia to collaborate with artists such as Phillipe Quint, Joyce Di Donato, and Tod Machover.

Chase is passionate about championing lesser-known solo works in the cello repertoire and employs multiple art disciplines to better convey this music to larger audiences. Adapting cello music to film is one way Chase believes he can make the abstract nature of music accessible to those with little or no exposure to classical music.

Chase is currently studying with Phillipe Muller and David Geber at the Manhattan School of Music. He received his Bachelor’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music studying with Peter Wiley and Carter Bey, and his Master’s degree at The Juilliard School with Minhye Clara Kim.