Laura Park, 15, is a scholarship recipient of the Music Institute of Chicago's Senior Academy program for gifted pre-college musicians where she studies privately with MIC artist faculty members Almita Vamos, Roland Vamos, and Marko Dreher. She has participated in masterclasses with Ilya Kaler, Viviane Hagner, Joel Smirnoff, Mark Kaplan, Alice Schoenfeld, David Bowlin, Elisabeth Adkins, and the Pacifica and Ying Quartets. Laura has twice been the overall winner of the Walgreens National Concerto Competition Junior Division. She has won numerous competitions, including the Music Teachers National Association Illinois Junior String Division, the Harper Young Artist Competition, the Society of American Musicians Competition, the Sejong Music Competition and the Confucius Competition. Also, she has received honors from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Auditions, the American String Teachers Association National Solo Competition, the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra Young Musicians Competition, and the North Suburban Symphony Orchestra Young Musicians Competition. She has soloed with the North Suburban Symphony Orchestra, the Harper Symphony Orchestra and Midwest Young Artist Concert Orchestra. She performed in the 2007 Young Steinway Concert Series. Laura has been featured on the 98.7 WFMT Introductions, ABC7Chicago, and Vermont Public Television. She is a member of the Aurelia String Quartet at the Music Institute of Chicago. Aurelia is the gold medal winner of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the St. Paul String Quartet Competition, the Jules M. Laser Chamber Music Competition, and the Rembrandt Chamber Players Competition, and have been named the Rembrandt Young Artists for 2009. She has studied at the Astona International Summer Academy in Switzerland and the Okemo Young Artist Program in Vermont. In 2009 she participated in the fellowship program of the Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra  National Trustees' Summer Music Institute (SMI) in Washington, D.C.

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