Cellist Tim Park has been praised for his energetic and exhilarating performances as well as for his expressive and beautiful sound.

In addition to performances as concert soloist, he has held the position of Assistant Principal Cellist of the Staatskapelle Berlin and cellist of the Erlenbusch String Quartet which has brought Tim to concert halls and stages in over 20 countries. Tim has performed with the New York Chamber Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, Berliner Symphoniker, Philharmomie Sudwestfalen, Tel-Aviv Camerata, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Lithuanian National Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, as well as orchestras in Korea under conductors such as Vladimir Fedoseyev, David Geringas, Dmitri Jurowski, Theodore Kuchar, Gerard Schwarz, Leonard Slatkin, Nabil Shehata and Eduard Topchjan.

An avid recitalist and chamber musician, Tim has collaborated with some of today’s leading artists at music festivals worldwide. He has been a performer at the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, Intonations Festival in Berlin, Salzburg Festival, Schleswig- Holstein Musik Festival, Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, Lucerne Festival, Bürgenstock Festival, International Pharos Chamber Music Festival in Cyprus, Santander Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, International Chamber Music Festival a l‘Emperi in Salon, Sonoro Bucharest and the Le Pont Music Festival in Ako and Himeji Japan. Among the distinguished musicians with whom he has collaborated include Daniel Barenboim, Elena Bashkirova, Alessio Bax, Kirill Gerstein, Denis Kozhukhin, Andras Schiff, Lahav Shani, Sunwook Kim, Yuja Wang, Kolja Blacher, Boris Brovtsyn, Renaud Capucon, Clara Jumi Kang, Daishin Kashimoto, Nikolaj Znaider, Nabil Shehata, Francois Leleux, Emmanuel Pahud, Jörg Widmann, Andreas Ottensamer, Till Bronner and Angela Denoke.

Born to Korean parents, Tim Park began music studies at the age of eight. At the age of eleven he entered the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He made his concerto debut with the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra at the age of thirteen and his New York Lincoln Center recital debut a year later. A Presidential Scholarship Award recipient he pursued medicine and music studies at Yale University. At the invitation of cellist David Geringas, Tim moved to Germany and completed his degrees at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ in Berlin, Germany. Tim has also participated in masterclass and lessons with the cellists Boris Pergamenschikov, Janos Starker, Steven Isserlis, Phillipe Muller, Arto Noras, as well as the Tokyo String Quartet and the LaSalle String Quartet. In 2013, Tim was awarded the Grand Prize of the S&R Foundation Washington Award which led to performance debuts at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Strathmore Hall in Baltimore.

Tim performs on a cello made by Gennaro Gagliano of Naples built in 1740.