Silenced Hyeyoon Park, WDR Sinfonieorchester & Gergely Madaras

• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975): Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77:
• 1 Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: I. Nocturne. Moderato 11:38
• 2 Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: II. Scherzo. Allegro 06:20
• 3 Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: III. Passacaglia. Andante - Cadenza attacca 13:50
• 4 Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: IV. Burlesque. Allegro con brio - Presto 04:59
• Henriëtte Bosmans (1895 - 1952): Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra:
• 5 Bosmans: Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra: I. Allegro maestoso 08:16
• 6 Bosmans: Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra: II. Adagio 06:50
• 7 Bosmans: Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra: III. Finale 04:56
• Dmitri Shostakovich: Theme with Variations in B-Flat Major, Op. 3:
• 8 Shostakovich: Theme with Variations in B-Flat Major, Op. 3 16:07
• Total Runtime 01:12:56

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Winner of the 2009 ARD International Music Competition, violinist Hyeyoon Park has made a name for herself as a soloist and chamber musician, performing with the likes of Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Kian Soltani, Timothy Ridout and Benjamin Grosvenor. On her first album for Linn, Silenced, she partners Gergely Madaras and WDR Sinfonieorchester in a beautiful programme that showcases two composers who were at odds with the system in place. Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto was banned for its ‘formalist distortions’ and only premiered in 1955 after Stalin's death. Refusing to join the Nazi-aligned Kultuurkamer, Dutch composer Henriëtte Bosmans’ work was banned. Her Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra, composed in grief, is introspective and bitter in tone. A youthful academic exercise, Shostakovich’s Variations Op. 3 brings the album to a rumbustious end.

Hyeyoon Park, violin
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Gergely Madaras, conductor

Hyeyoon Park
is an artist of outstanding focus and virtuosity, combining effortlessly rich sonority with musical integrity. The youngest ever winner of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 2009, she is in demand as both a soloist and chamber musician.

Recent engagements include critically-acclaimed performances with both the Hallé Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia alongside Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Benjamin Grosvenor in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto of which the Guardian wrote: “Thematic material…was most expressively phrased: Kanneh-Mason and Park were well matched in sweetness of tone”, Orchester Mainz, Poznan Philharmonic, Hitzacker Festival, Cologne Philharmonie, Zuger Sinfonietta, IMUKO Festival, Iasi Philharmonic at the Classix Festival (Vivaldi’s Four Seasons). She has also worked with Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Chamber Orchestra of Belgium, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener KammerOrchester, Mariinsky Orchestra St Petersburg, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Tokyo and London Philharmonic Orchestra, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin, Orchestra of Casa da Musica Porto, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Bath Philharmonia.

A passionate chamber musician, she regularly appears at major festivals and venues such as Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, London’s Southbank Centre, Birmingham’s Town Hall, Spannungen Festival Heimbach, Moritzburg Festival, Les Rencontres Musicales d'Évian, Internationales Musikfestival Koblenz, Molyvos International Music Festival and Marlboro Festival at the invitation of Mitsuko Uchida. She has collaborated with Gidon Kremer, Andras Schiff, Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithaas, Yuri Bashmet, Lars Vogt, Daniel Hope, Alban Gerhardt, Jan Vogler and Florian Uhlig.

She gave the world premiere of a work written for her by composer Mark Bowden with Huw Watkins at the Newbury Spring Festival, subsequently recording this for the NMC record label. She has also given recitals at the Tonhalle Zurich, Wiener Konzerthaus, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Musical Olympus Festival and Les Violons de la Paix.

Her debut digital release on Decca Classics in 2022 to mark Vaughan Williams’ 150th anniversary featured the ever-popular Lark Ascending in its original scoring for violin and piano, alongside pianist Benjamin Grosvenor which was praised for its ‘soaring beauty with an almost conversational intimacy’ (Record Review, BBC Radio 3).

Hyeyoon studied at the junior colleges of the Korean National University of Arts and University of Cincinnati with Professor Piotr Milewski. She also studied with Professor Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin

Hyeyoon plays a violin made by German violin-maker, Stefan-Peter Greiner.

2010-2016, she studied at Kronberg Academy with Christian Tetzlaff, funded by the Nikolas Gruber scholarship.

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