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Advisor
Prof. YUKI MORI
Violinist and teacher Takayuki "Yuki" Mori was a student of the legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz and is a graduate of The Juilliard School where he was a scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki. He also studied chamber music with Robert Mann of the Juilliard Quartet.
Having won numerous competitions and performing as soloist with orchestras in his youth while in Australia, including the ASTRA Competition, he auditioned to study with Jascha Heifetz on the advice of Kikuei Ikeda, the violinist of the Tokyo Quartet, and was eventually accepted as the youngest student of Heifetz at 16 years of age.
Since his U.S. recital debut in 1987, Mori has performed as soloist and chamber musician in the U.S., Korea, Australia, Japan, and Taiwan. Highlights of his performances include the New York premiere of "Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector" by the renowned American composer Terry Riley and a performance for the prince and princess of Japan on their official visit to the United States. As a judge, he has been invited to be on the jury at Osaka International Competition, Cecilia International Competition, Yejin Competition and others.
As a teacher, Mori served on the faculty at California State University, Los Angeles, and as a professor of violin at the University of Suwon in Korea. He has given master classes in the U.S., Korea, and Taiwan, and has taught at Kinhaven Music Festival, Seoul National Symphony Orchestra Music Festival, Tateshina Music Festival in Japan, and others. As a conductor, Mori conducted The Seoul Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra at the opening ceremony for the 46th Korean Academy Awards (Daejong Sang) as well as the Seoul National Symphony Orchestra and the Planetary Chamber Ensemble, among others. As a composer, his compositions have been performed at the Purcell Hall in London and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Hall by the Ensemble Sakura.
His arrangement of Piazzolla’s Libertango for six violins and piano is being performed in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan by international violinists Ray Chen, Akiko Suwanai, Sergey Khatchatryan, Svetlin Roussev, Arabella Steinbacher, and Veronika Eberle.
Prof. MIN JUNG PARK
Min Jung Park was born in Korea where she began violin lessons at age 5. She won first prize in the Seoul National Competition at age 11, the first of many such prizes she would capture nationwide during her teens, including a featured appearance on national TV.
After attending the prestigious Seoul National University, she moved to the U.S. to study as a full scholarship student of the renowned violinist Jascha Heifetz and later with Robert Lipsett. As a scholarship student at the Juilliard School, she studied with Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, and Glenn Dicterow.
In 1992, as the winner of the Artist International Special Presentation Award, she was presented in her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, receiving highest critical acclaim. Since then, she has been delighting audiences in the U.S., Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. She has also performed as soloist with the Camerata Orchestra of Los Angeles, High Desert Symphony, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Seoul National Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Metropolitan Symphony, Planetary Chamber Ensemble, Chungnam Philharmonic, Mokpo Philharmonic, and others.
Park has also been in high demand as a teacher with many of her students going onto successful musical careers including with the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and others. She has taught at California State University, Los Angeles and has taught and given master classes at Kinhaven Music Festival in Vermont, Tateshina Music Festival in Japan, Eumag Chunchu Music Festival, Yaejin Music Festival and J & R Music School in Korea, Women's University at Taipei in Taiwan, and other festivals.
She has made appearances on the Johnny Yune Show, Classic Odyssey on KBS, KBS radio, TV and radio shows in Taiwan and has also appeared on Nobless Magazine, String Magazine, Strad Magazine and other publications.
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