Yun Park is a classical percussionist, educator, and music director.                     

                    Hailed by many critics as a dynamic, versatile performer with sensational interpretations of modern classics, GQ Korea has described her as “Bringing a new depth to contemporary music with expressive musicality and virtuosity“ and Auditorium Magazine has described her as a “Captivating storyteller.”                     

                    Yun was recognized early in her career for helping to inspire and pioneer solo percussion performance and pedagogy in South Korea. She was the first Korean percussionist to be accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music and has performed at world-renowned music halls and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Verbier Festival, Seoul Arts Center, LG Art Center, Hoam Art Hall, the Tong-yeong International Music Festival (TIMF) and Pyeong-chang Music Festival(GMMFS). She has also been involved in a diverse array of works as a soloist, ensemble performer, and arranger/composer for various projects including multidisciplinary performing arts and major motion film scores.                     

                    Along with her many successful solo recitals, ensemble performances, and televised media exposure as a featured artist, Yun has given the Seoul premiere performances of several renowned works for percussion, including MacMillan’s Veni, Veni Emmanuel with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Kraft’s Timpani Concerto No. 1 with the Kangnam Symphony Orchestra, Hatzi’s Fertility Rites, and Daugherty’s Raise the Roof with the Seoul National University Wind Ensemble. In addition, she has commissioned and performed many composers’ new works promoted by the Asian Composers League (ACL), the Korean Society of Women Composers, and Unji Composers League.                     

                    In 2010, Yun co-founded the contemporary project ensemble, BOIM, which debuted as the Kunstlerhaus Artist-in-residence in Lauenburger, Germany.                     

                    She has also worked with numerous contemporary ensembles as a guest artist, soloist and member, including the contemporary ensemble Sori, modern music ensemble Eclat, Eighth Black Bird, and ensemble Ditto.                     

                    Yun also attracted public recognition with her involvement in film projects as a featured artist with the recording and management label, Musikdorf. There, she collaborated on unique projects including multidisciplinary performing arts and film scores including Bong Joon-ho’s The Host. She also composed and performed on the soundtracks of other hit Korean films, including My Beautiful Girl Mari, Purpose of Love, The Red Shoes, and Princess Aurora.                     

                    For the theatre drama, Die Troerinnen, she combined multi-percussion improvisation and computer music at the 2007 Vienna International Drama Festival, and performed the work at the Schauspielhaus in Vienna, and later, the Seoul Arts Center Towol Theater. Yun continues to collaborate with many composers and visual artists in creating new multi-media works.                     

                    As a versatile arranger, Yun rearranged several symphonies for orchestra into pieces for two pianos and one multi percussion trio, including The Planets (G.Holst), Petrushka and The Rite of Spring (I. Stravinsky), An American in Paris (G. Gershwin), and many more, performing these trios every year internationally since 2012.                     

                   Yun has also been invited every summer since 2013 as a featured artist of the Pyeongchang International Music Festival (GMMFS), where she was appointed as the principal timpanist of the festival orchestra as well as performing her solo and ensemble work in the Distinguished Artist Series.                     

                    An educator at heart, Yun continues to teach students and provide master classes. She was formerly the Director of Percussion Studies at Sookmyung University as well as on the faculty at Chugye and Kunkuk Universities in Seoul, Korea. Most recently, she was invited to perform and lecture at the Seoul Philharmonic Percussion Symposium.                     

                    Yun has also been asked to write for different publications, most notably the Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s largest daily newspaper, whereby she provided a weekly column.                     

                    Born in Seoul, Yun started learning the piano at four, and began to study composition and percussion at 16. She moved to Philadelphia to study with the late Michael Bookspan and Donald Liuzzi at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she graduated in 1999 with the Mary-Louisa Knapp Fellowship and the Zildjian Scholarship. She followed that with a Master of Music degree under Michael Burritt at Northwestern University. She resides in Chicago and represented by music management Subject P LLC.