Heng-Jin Park Biography. Hailed by the Washington Post as “a pianist of unusual artistry and musical imagination”, Heng-Jin Park is renowned for her versatility as a soloist, chamber musician, pedagogue, and music director. Born in Korea and raised in the Boston area, Ms. Park studied with Leonard Shure and Russell Sherman at the New England Conservatory. She received her Bachelor and Master Degrees at NEC and also worked with Marie-Françoise Bucquet at Conservatoire Nationale Superieur de la Musique de Paris. Ms. Park started playing the piano at age 5, and made her solo debut with the Boston Pops performing the Schumann Concerto at age 15 in Boston Symphony Hall. She has had return engagements with the Boston Pops as a soloist as well as concerto appearances with the New England Philharmonic, L'Orchestre Symphonique Française, and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. As a recitalist, she has performed in Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Halls in New York, the Library of Congress, Ambassador Hall in California, the Gardner Museum, Jordan Hall, as well as concerts in Switzerland, France, Korea, and Canada. Ms. Park is the founder and artistic director of Halcyon Music Festival based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She is also a founding member and the pianist of the celebrated Boston Trio and has performed at some of the most prestigious venues internationally with this ensemble. She has collaborated with numerous world renowned musicians in her long career as a chamber musician. Committed to training the next generation of musicians, Ms. Park enjoys an international reputation as a respected pedagogue of both piano and chamber music. Ms. Park holds the title Artist-in-Residence and teaches a chamber music course at Harvard University and she is an affiliated artist at MIT. Ms. Park was the artistic director of the Killington Music Festival in Vermont and served on the faculty of Tanglewood Music Center and Yellow Barn Music Festival.