Christopher Park,16, was born in Lafayette, IN, and is a sophomore at West Lafayette High School in Indiana.  Christopher has been studying piano for ten years since 1st grade with Nadya Dubikovsky and piano became the focus of his activities.  Christopher participated many competitions.  He has won the District and State levels of the Indiana Music Teachers' Association (IMTA) Piano Competition in 2003, 2007 and 2009.  In 2007, he earned an honorable mention in Piano Junior division in the Sejong Music Competition, and he won 1st place of the Ruth Jamieson Piano Scholarship Competition in the summer of 2008.  Christopher performed and collaborated in a Master Class with Davide Cabassi in 2007, a Cliburn International Piano Competition Finalist and with Jeremy Denk in 2008.  In July 2009, Christopher participated in the World Piano Competition held in Cincinnati, Ohio and won 2nd Place in the Level 10 concerto division.  He performed in the winner’s recital at Carnegie Hall in New York City on October 10, 2009.  Christopher was one of the three winners of the Allan Keller Concerto Competition in 2009 and made his Orchestral debut with Lafayette Symphony Orchestra at the Long Center of Performing Art in Lafayette, Indiana on November 21, 2009.  Christopher participated in the National Piano Playing Auditions eight years consecutively and has participated annually in the Indiana State School Music Association (ISSMA) Contest on piano and violin.

Christopher also has been studying violin with Regan Eckstein for nine years.  In school, Christopher plays violin in the Symphony Orchestra and in the West Lafayette String Quartet, which performs many times throughout the year in the community and on Purdue University’s campus.  Christopher is the concertmaster of the Indiana All-State Orchestra for 2011 and was the 2nd violin principal in 2010.  Christopher has been a member of the Wabash Valley Youth Symphony (WVYS) in Indiana for five years and the Wabash Valley Chamber Orchestra for three years.  He is the co-concertmaster of WVYS for the 2010-2011 season.  Christopher is a finalist of the WVYS concerto competition in 2010 and will perform on violin with the orchestra in the Long Center of Performing Art in Lafayette on February 20, 2011.  Christopher was a District winner of the IMTA Instrumental Competition in 2004, 2007, 2009, and 2010 and the State winner in 2007 and 2010.  Christopher played piano and violin in a number of recitals and community events and has played as a church pianist and violinist.  He will perform a solo piano recital on January 14, 2011.  Christopher was the President of the Tippecanoe Junior Musicale for 2008-2009 and in school he is the vice president of his class.  Other than music Christopher enjoys playing tennis and golf.  He is on the school’s Varsity tennis team and golf team.

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A native of Korea, Eun Young Lee graduated from Ewha Women’s University with undergraduate and graduate degrees in Music Theory. After teaching music in universities across Korea, she moved to the United States in 1999, where she did graduate studies with David Noon at the Manhattan School of Music. Currently Ms. Lee is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, where she is a recipient of the Lowell C. Wadmond Award, Doolittle Harrison Fellowship and Humanities Grant. Her current teachers include Shulamit Ran, Marta Ptaszynska, Jan Radzynski, Bernard Rands, Howard Sandroff, and Kotoka Suzuki. Ms. Lee has won multiple awards for her music, including first prize for the Tsang-Houei Hsu International Music Composition Award; the 2008 Max Di Julio Prize at the Nevada Encounters of New Music (N.E.O.N.) Festival; Honorable Mention in Great Wall International Competition; the first regional award in the SCI/ASCAP student composition commission (2006, 2009, 2010). Additionally, she was a recipient of the MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellowships, and the Gerald Oshita Memorial Fellowship for the 2010 Djerassi Resident Artist Program. Her music has been heard through Art of the States, EBU (European Broadcasting Union), and KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) programes, and is featured in the SCI Journal of Music Scores (Vol. 41) as well as CD series (No.23). Prominent ensembles including the New York New Music Ensemble, eighth blackbird, Pacifica String Quartet, ALEA III, North/South Consonance Ensemble, Timetable Percussion, and Geum-Pa Flute Ensemble have performed her music. Her instrumental pieces, multimedia pieces, computer music, and film scores were featured in festivals and concerts in many countries, including June in Buffalo, SCI Conference, SCI National Conference, MGMC, Czech-America Institute in Prague, Korean Music Expo, 60X60 Project Vox Novus, Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pinocoteca do estado de Sao Paulo in Brazil, and Music09 in Switzerland. In 2008 she participated in the Atlantic Center for the Arts as an Associate Artist-in-Residence to Master Artist Augusta Read Thomas.

The lyrics of Tae-Pyung-Ga expresses the effort to overcome mundane anguish by singing joyful tunes. This work was completed at MacDowell Colony in May 2010.

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