Mabelle Park

Mabelle Park

Key Facts

  • Instrument: Violin

Biography

Mabelle Young-Eun Park is a Germany-born violinist from South Korea. Having graduated her Bachelor of Music studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with First Class Honours and a full scholarship in 2024, she is currently pursuing a Master of Arts degree at the Royal Academy studying with So-Ock Kim.

Mabelle is a recipient of the Musicians’ Company Goldman Award, Clarence Myerscough Award, and the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Award, and she is grateful for the generous support through awards from the Leverhulme Arts Trust, Help Musicians UK, J & A Beare Cultural Trust, and Harbour Foundation.

She has performed in many leading venues around the world including the Royal Festival Hall, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Moscow International House of Music, Drapers Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Mabelle appeared as a soloist at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall with the Seoul Arts Symphony Orchestra and gave invitational recitals on various stages across Europe and Asia.

Over recent years, she has been invited to perform and participate in international music festivals such as Aspen Music Festival with full scholarship from the Polonsky Foundation Fellowship and Aspen Conducting Academy Fellowship, Hellensmusic Masterclass Programme, Alpen Kammer Music Festival, and Aldeburgh Festival. Having been concertmaster and co-principal for the Royal Academy Chamber and Symphony Orchestras, Mabelle has worked with conductors Semyon Bychkov, Sir Mark Elder, Trevor Pinnock and many more.

As an avid chamber musician with a variety of chamber projects alongside solo engagements, Mabelle has collaborated and performed with renowned musicians including Anthony Marwood, Gil Shaham, Steven Isserlis, Guy Johnston, Bruno Delepelaire, and Julien Quentin. As a founding member of the Regency String Quartet based in London, Mabelle has been selected for the Sir Elton John Global Exchange Programme and The Frost Trust Advanced Specialist String Ensemble Training scheme with mentoring from the Doric String with her string quartet. She has won numerous chamber music awards including the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize, Seoul Chamber Competition, Historical Women Composers Prize, and Harold Craxton Prize.

With a strong passion for teaching, Mabelle is actively teaching violin as a faculty at the Seoul Central Conservatory and through the Advanced Music Programme.

Mabelle plays on a Stefan-Peter Greiner violin from 2016.

 

Award: Musicians’ Company Goldman Award 2024