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About Finisterra, Classical Piano Trio Kwan Bin Park, violin, was born in South Korea and began studying the violin at age ten. By age eleven he began attending Juilliard pre-college where he studied with Sally Thomas. Since then, his teachers have included such luminaries as Gabriel Banat, Denes Zgmondy, Joseph Fuchs, Stephen Clapp, Ron Patterson and Ruggero Ricci. He then went on to finish both Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Music from the Juilliard School of Music during which he was a Gluck Fellow for three years. He has performed as soloist with the Princeton Youth Orchestra and the Philadelphia College Symphony. In addition to being first prizewinner at the Stokes Competition, Kwan Bin has been awarded the William Randolph Hearst award and the Dorothy Delay Violin award. Kwan Bin has worked with such renowned conductors as Kurt Masur and Leonard Slatkin. He has attended the Meadowmount Institute, the Kneisal Hall Chamber Music school, and the Torre Mountgri Chamber Music Festival. He was also a founding member of the Corelliard Chamber Orchestra and toured with them extensively. Kwan Bin has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout Spain, Germany, Canada, South Korea and the United States as well as at the Mostly Nordic Chamber Music Series. Kwan Bin also enjoys a busy career outside of Finisterra touring with such acts as Rod Stewart, Queensryche, Sarah Brightman, Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Josh Groban and as a studio recording player playing films, video games, commercials, and other media. Individual Bios - Kwan Bin Park :: Kevin Krentz :: Tanya Stambuk |