Saerom Park

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 박 새롬
Revised
Romanization 		Pak Saerom
McCune-
Reischauer 		Bak Saerom

Saerom Park (Saerom Emma Lou Park, 박 새롬, born June 23, 1981 ) is a German-Korean cellist .

Saerom Park's musical activities both as a soloist and chamber musician have already taken her across Europe, Asia and South Africa. She was born in 1981 to a family of South Korean artists and began her musical education at the age of three, initially playing the piano. Nine years later she switched to cello. Her talent was quickly recognized. She has won numerous competitions, and at the age of fifteen she made her debut with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra.

In 1999 Saerom Park came to Germany to continue her studies at the Folkwang Hochschule , where she studied cello and chamber music with Young-Chang Cho and Andreas Reiner . She received further impulses under great influence from renowned tutors such as Bernhard Greenhouse, Boris Pergamenschikow , Alexander Kniazev and Matt Haimovitz.

In 2000, Saerom Park founded the piano trio Trio Image with the violinist Gergana Gergova and the pianist Pavlin Nechev . She was an active member of the trio until 2007. The trio worked as part of the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) with well-known musicians such as Hatto Beyerle , Shmuel Ashkenazy, Erich Höbarth, Gábor Tacásc-Nagy, Johannes Meissl, Christoph Richter and Avedis Kouyoumdjan. Trio Image won a. a. 3rd Prize and Audience Prize at the 6th International Competition "Franz Schubert and Modern Music" in Graz, Austria. In the 2005/06 season the trio received a scholarship from the “Werner Richard-Carl-Dörken-Stiftung”.

As a passionate chamber musician, Saerom has performed at various festivals, including the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival , “Pablo Casals Festival Prades”, “Schubertiade Akzenbrugg”, “International Cello Festival Beograd”, “International Week Graz”, “Festival de musique de chambre de Normandie” ”,“ International Music Festival Varna Summer ”, where she played with outstanding artists such as Claude Frank , Joseph Silverstein, Vladimir Mendelssohn, and Michel Strauss.

Saerom Park lives in Hamburg and works as the solo cellist of the Ensemble Resonanz .

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SURNAME Park, Saerom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 박 새롬 (Korean, Hangeul); Bak, Sae-rom (Revised Romanization); Pak, Saerom (McCune-Reischauer); Saerom Emma Lou Park (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Korean cellist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1981