About
Jean Park
Pianist Jean Park is active as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral keyboardist, educator, presenter, and adjudicator. She serves on the piano faculties of Duke University and Meredith College, coaches chamber ensembles for the North Carolina Chamber Music Institute, and maintains a private studio for advanced piano students in Cary, North Carolina.
As a chamber musician, Dr. Park is the pianist of the Ardora Trio and collaborates frequently with university colleagues and symphony musicians. She has also appeared as a substitute pianist and keyboardist with the North Carolina Symphony in repertoire including Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals and Sarah Gibson’s Warp & Weft.
Her solo performances have included Around the World in 88 Keys, a recital of music from six continents at the Cary Arts Center, and a live broadcast on WSMR Classical featuring Lowell Liebermann’s Gargoyles, Op. 29. Her recording of Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor was featured in the 2019 film Don’t Let the Night End. She was also awarded first prize in the Graduate Division of the Schubert Club Competition.
Dr. Park has taught at the collegiate level since 2018, with previous faculty appointments at the University of the Incarnate Word and San Antonio College. In addition to her teaching, she is active as a masterclass teacher, presenter, and adjudicator. She was featured as a Rising Faculty Star at the Texas State International Piano Festival and presented From Arirang to BTS: Piano Ensemble Music of Korean Composers at the 2025 MTNA National Conference. Her adjudication experience includes concerto competitions at Duke University, Texas State University, the Wilmington Symphony, and the Chapel Hill Philharmonia, as well as for events for music teacher associations and organizations in North Carolina, Texas, and New York.
Dr. Park earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University, where she studied with Gilbert Kalish; her Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Daniel Epstein and André-Michel Schub; and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington, where she studied with Regina Yeh. Her additional principal teachers include Mary Toy and Eteri Andjaparidze.
