Sueye Park wins the International Sibelius Violin Competition
Eisler graduate Sueye Park has won first prize at the 13th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki. In addition to the prize of 30,000 euros, she will also receive a Guadagnini 1777 ¡®ex Sasson¡¯ violin on loan for a year from Dr David Li via the Beare's International Violin Society. The final of the competition was played by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Dima Slobodeniouk and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under conductors Pietari Inkinen and Geoffrey Paterson.
The South Korean violinist Sueye Park was born in 2000. She completed her bachelor's and master's degree with Prof. Ulf Wallin at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and will complete her concert exam at the Eisler on 25 June with the school's chamber orchestra.
Sueye Park, who already teaches at the Eisler, has performed with the Komische Oper Berlin Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Korean Symphony Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. In 2017, she released her debut album, a critically acclaimed recording of the 24 Paganini Caprices, followed by the recital CD ¡®Salut d'amour¡¯. Her album ¡®Journey Through a Century¡¯ with works for solo violin was voted ¡®Recordings of the Year 2021¡¯ as Editor's Choice by the British magazine Gramophone. In 2022, she released the three violin concertos by Isang Yun with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Osmo V?nsk?, and in 2023 she recorded the complete works for violin and piano by Karol Szymanowski with pianist Roland P?ntinen.